Moving Forward
By Marianne Nacanaynay, Op/Ed Editor
April 27, 2017
Filed under Feature, News, U.S. and World News
It’s safe to assume most students don’t go to school expecting to not return home. But in this day and age, it’s hard to not be aware of that possibility every now and then—even more so, depending on where a student goes to school. The most recent school shooting to date in the United States ...
The guns and the brains
By Sierra Clark, Co-Editor-in-Chief
April 27, 2017
Filed under Letter from the Editor
It seems like every other day there is another mass shooting flashing across the news screens. San Bernardino, Marysville Pilchuck, Fort Lauderdale, Sandy Hook, at Pulse in Orlando, Virginia Tech and Umpqua Community College; these are just a few of the more recent ones. While I’d like to blame...
Editorial: Stop blaming violent acts on video games
By Ian Moffet, Hawkeye staff
November 5, 2014
Filed under Op/Ed
Guns, blood, gore, fighting and profanity are what you will see in many of the video games of today. Due to this, a debate has been sparked on whether these video games, with their violent nature and explicit debauchery, directly affect the user in a violent manner. In the wake of many shootings...
Shame on the U.S. Senate for rejecting new gun laws
By Will Khadivi
April 22, 2013
Filed under Op/Ed
More than 3,500 people have died in the United States because of gun violence since the Dec. 14 slaughter of 20 schoolchildren and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. Even with these preventable deaths happening every single day in America, the U.S. Senate this last Wednesday voted...