Letter from the Editors
Hello Patriots! What can we say? Times are tough and things are changing. This global pandemic has reoriented life as we know it and the end isn’t in sight quite yet. School is different, work is different, meeting with each…
Monthly Archives: September 2020
“Tenet” can save the movies
BY LUKE HARRIS Movie theaters have awoken from their deep slumber. After six long months away, I finally got to experience a movie in a theater: Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” I’ve been looking forward to “Tenet” since it was announced in…
Mason welcomes back students for the first week of classes
Students return to classes to start off the new school year BY BRAD BYRNE, STAFF WRITER A new school year like no other has begun for students at Mason. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t let down in the United States…
Lean into online learning: stop the live lectures
BY DOMINIC PINO, OPINION EDITOR The real world diverges from our ideal world, and we are often stuck choosing between second-bests. Well, if we lived in a world of second-bests before the coronavirus pandemic, then now we must be down…
Letter from the Culture Desk
Welcome to a new and strange semester at Mason! These last several months have been a completely new experience for everyone and the next few months will be a continued time of adjustment and learning for every Mason student. Here…
The Bookshelf
“The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennett BY MAGGIE ROTH STAFF WRITER Bestselling author Brit Bennet’s second novel, “The Vanishing Half,” has proven itself to be a compelling and timely tale about the intricacies of race and identity, while exploring…
Dear Ivy: How to Juggle Hybrid Classes
BY KAYLYN MATIS STAFF WRITER Dear Ivy, We are starting a really weird semester that none of us have experienced before. I have a few online classes and a few meeting in person. I have never done an online class…
Get in the Bubble
The MLB looks to right the ship by using a bubble format in the postseason BY DOMENIC ALLEGRA SPORTS EDITOR It’s the first week of baseball, July 27, and the Miami Marlins are set to take on the Philadelphia Phillies…
It’s time to stop the use of solitary confinement
BY SAVANNAH MARTINCIC Albert Woodfox spent more than 40 years in solitary confinement in the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary, nicknamed “Angola.” From 1972 to 2016, Woodfox’s entire world was encapsulated in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell, trapped by weak evidence, an unfair…
Don’t follow California: keep gig work legal
BY ALEX MADAJIAN Think of all the services which are brought to us by gig work: Uber, freelance journalism, music in nightclubs, stand-up comedy, consulting and any other service provided by people who work irregularly for individual customers. In 2019,…