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Ka Yat Michelle Lau and other volunteers at LBFE help teach senior citizens how to use various technological programs. A rise in online platforms made for keeping track of healthcare services increased the digital divide for many elderly people. Photo courtesy Chisom Nnajiofor.

Op-ed: How we can bridge the digital divide in healthcare for the elderly

Ka Yat Michelle Lau, contributor December 18, 2024

In a world where almost everything is now available online, imagine being unable to access healthcare services simply because you can’t navigate a smartphone. For many elderly people today, this is a harsh reality. As healthcare increasingly moves online, from services like...

Op-ed: Are we banning books or empathy?

Op-ed: Are we banning books or empathy?

Ava Vitiello, columnist December 12, 2024

Required readings in high school were always a drag. “The Odyssey,” “Romeo and Juliet” and “Of Mice and Men” were my sole enemies throughout my time in school, and I hated that English teachers would make us analyze and break down every little thing in these dense...

Students sit along a line of benches in the Centennial Common greenery. Many who voted in the November election did not consider climate to be their top priority, despite the increase of weather disasters such as Hurricane Milton.

Op-ed: We cannot put off saving our planet anymore

Ava Vitiello, columnist December 9, 2024

In early October, Hurricane Milton decimated the Florida coast. The damning impact of this natural disaster only showed that we as a country are extremely unprepared to tackle climate change-related disasters, and this continues to be apparent with every natural disaster that...

Op-ed: How TikTok is reshaping the news landscape

Op-ed: How TikTok is reshaping the news landscape

Shreya Pillamari, contributor December 5, 2024

TikTok has become a household name that millions recognize. Whether you love the app, hate it or refuse to download it and get sucked into its addictive nature, TikTok has made a significant name for itself.  While the app is mostly used for entertainment purposes, in recent...

Kamala Harris looks at the crowd during a campaign rally in Arizona Aug. 9. Harris lost Nov. 5 and many were adverse to voting for Harris because of her gender, race and campaigns. Photo courtesy Gage Skidmore, flickr.

Op-ed: Being a woman may not have cost Kamala Harris the election — but it certainly didn’t help

Samantha Denecour, columnist December 4, 2024

Throughout the 2024 election, I would often hear friends and family make the claim that they “just don’t like” Kamala Harris. Regardless of whether they ultimately decided to vote for her, people across the political spectrum seemed to revel in echoing just how “off-putting”...

Op-ed: The transition from high school to college is important, but expectations feel too high

Op-ed: The transition from high school to college is important, but expectations feel too high

Antaine Anhalt, contributor December 2, 2024

Life comes with plenty of transitions, some unavoidable and many harder than others. Going from kindergarten to first grade feels minor now, even though it felt like the entire world to us then. Before we knew it, we were walking out of our high schools for the last time, diploma...

Op-ed: Anything you can do, AI can do better

Op-ed: Anything you can do, AI can do better

Mikayla Tsai, columnist November 29, 2024

Back when my grandparents were in school, cheating on assignments actually took effort. In today’s day and age, simply feeding a request into ChatGPT outputs three separate essays on the same topic simultaneously, with no difficulty whatsoever.  Let’s face it: people...

The Warren Olney Hall at the Northeastern Oakland campus. Universities across the nation utilized the legacy policy, undermining many first generation or unknown college applicants. Photo courtesy Lauren Matthews.

Op-ed: Legacy admissions should cease to exist

Mikayla Tsai, columnist November 25, 2024

As a third-year university student, I am very lucky to enjoy the luxury and benefits that a Northeastern education provides. In my first-year of college, I was admitted despite having no familial ties to this institution, yet the same cannot be said in the Oakland and Silicon...

Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Arizona Aug. 23. Trump was elected for a second term as president Nov. 5. Photo courtesy Gage Skimore, flickr.

Op-ed: Donald Trump: the United States’ president, the world’s headache

Lily Cooper, contributor November 23, 2024

On Nov. 5, former President Donald Trump won the keys to the White House yet again. His first term in office was characterized by welfare cuts, tariffs and disastrous policies relating to the “hoax” that most of the world calls climate change. As for the contents of his second...

Op-ed: Why Democrats are losing votes to the third party

Op-ed: Why Democrats are losing votes to the third party

Ava Vitiello, columnist November 23, 2024

With the 2024 election now decided and Donald Trump taking his place as the next president of the United States, many Democrats and those opposed to Trump are realizing that we have entered a new era of politics.  So how did we get here?  In 2016, many Democrats were...

The ChatGPT website on a student’s laptop. It was released two years ago by OpenAI.

Op-ed: The lost art of learning

Kara Orsini, columnist November 19, 2024

Google, in all its glory, is a verb just as much as it is a search engine. When trying to find information, very rarely do I hear people say “look it up,” it's always “Google it.” ChatGPT is now enduring the same fate, becoming a verb rather than just being artificial...

Op-ed: The dissonance of co-op and curiosity

Op-ed: The dissonance of co-op and curiosity

Gigi Barucci, contributor November 16, 2024

As I enter my fourth year at Northeastern, I have found genuine intellectual curiosity to be quite rare. The culture of co-op fosters a transactional approach to learning. Students who say they’re genuinely fulfilled by what they are studying are few and far between. Conversations...