• How Have Different World Leaders Coped With COVID-19?

    There are many factors which make it difficult to accurately compare the responses of individual countries to the global COVID-19 pandemic, such as population size and population density. However, there have been undeniable shortcomings in the US, whilst Taiwan is a textbook case study of how to cope in...
  • Safety First: An Interview with the University’s Head of Security

    University campuses aren’t always the safest places to be, even for students. Whether it’s recent stories of muggings on the University Park campus, or the wider acknowledgement of gun crime in the United States, students have reason to be concerned. It is certain that the threat of a school...
  • Kaepernick reaches settlement with NFL

    In an official statement from Colin Kaepernick’s lawyer, Mark Geragos, the former 49ers signal caller reached an agreement with the NFL to drop his collusion case. The figure is thought to be around $60-$80 million dollars. Almost three years after Colin Kaepernick first began his silent protest against racial...
  • From Television Personality to President: Donald Trump’s impact on music from 2016-2017

    There are three certainties in life. (1) We all eventually die, (2) we all pay taxes at some point and (3) US President Donald Trump will say something so outrageous that the ever-divided world will yet again ask the question as to how he became president. November 8th 2018...
  • Rediscovering Forest Hills: J. Cole and the Music of Life

    I have been a J. Cole fan from the moment I first heard his music. Though all his projects are interesting and masterful in their own way, it is 2014 Forest Hills Drive which has affected me most, and is often considered his best work. It is an album...
  • This is America: A Wonderful Depiction of a Brutal Reality

    In his career as an actor, musician, and rapper, there is not much that Donald Glover (A.K.A Childish Gambino) hasn’t done in the entertainment industry. Personally, I know him best for his role of Troy Barnes on the hilarious show Community. But hilarity is certainly not the intention when...
  • Music Interview – The Homeless Gospel Choir, aka Derek Zanetti

    Derek Zanetti is anything but normal. As an activist, author, and artist from Pittsburg, Zanetti is unconventional at its best. To start off the interview, I ask Derek if he had any particular influences when creating The Homeless Gospel Choir’s music. He admits he’s a massive fan of all...