JARED GARTZKE | OPINION EDITOR As I am sure everyone is aware, 2020 has been a very chaotic and energetic year, especially concerning political unrest. At the forefront of political discourse in America is people’s beliefs on what we should do about police violence. There is certainly a variety of ideas people have about what… Read More Police Brutality: What Can We Do?
JARED GARTZKE | OPINION EDITOR For me and a lot of my friends right now is a strange time in our lives. For so long we lived like an animated shadow, believing we were the cause but we were all marionettes of someone or some system. Even though, in retrospect, we were living our lives… Read More Existential Crisis 101
JARED GARTZKE | OPINION EDITOR Over break I had a weird experience. To set the scene it was the Monday night after break started, and on Monday nights I drive from Appleton to Green Bay to play Magic the Gathering. I usually stay in Green Bay till about midnight because after magic we all go… Read More A Weird Winter Break Experience
JARED GARTZKE | OPINION EDITOR The past month of my life has been in no exaggerated way the worst month of my life. Breakups, deaths, cancer diagnoses and every single panic attack I’ve ever had in my life have all happened in the last month. I don’t claim to have the most difficult life in… Read More Finding Myself
JARED GARTZKE | OPINION EDITOR When I was in second grade, by some mystical power of the universe, my schedule for summer school got messed up and I got put into a class called “Manners and Politeness.” Out of all my years in school, this one class in summer school may have ended up being… Read More Small Things That I Hate
JARED GARTZKE | OPINION COLUMNIST Over the weekend I went to my grandmother’s house and helped out by doing some landscaping work before it gets cold out. My grandma is a pretty old-fashioned lady but in the last few years she has been dipping her toes into the world of modern technology. As of right… Read More Netflix and War Crimes
JARED GARTZKE | OPINION EDITOR Recently a video from the “School of Life” showed up in my recommendations. The video is called “Why Socrates Hated Democracy.” I watch this video almost every time I see it recommended. While we all have our own issues with our government and how it is run, I think there… Read More Thoughts on Democracy
JARED GARTZKE | OPINION EDITOR This time of year is always, in a word, interesting to me. It holds the same stigma that graduating high school did. While the two times are almost exact opposites, the feeling I had at one resonates so well with the other in the same way that complementary colors pair… Read More Getting Back to School
JARED GARTZKE | OPINION EDITOR So much of what people admire is based on a dedication to mastery. We celebritize people like Lebron James and Gordon Ramsay for becoming as amazing as they can at what they do. Sometimes we even make celebrities out of people who we have absolutely no interest in what they… Read More Comedic Master
JARED GARTZKE | OPINION EDITOR “Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice” recently came into a controversial light when game journalists criticized the game for being too difficult. This debate has happened before but specifically for this game the debate has gained a lot of traction. “Sekiro” was developed by FromSoftware, which is the same company who created… Read More Lessons From Video Games
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