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Editorial — Banning TikTok?

Editorial — Banning TikTok?

North Wind Editorial Board March 22, 2024

On March 13, the House of Representatives experienced some of the quickest agreement they’ve had in years: the vote to ban TikTok in the U.S. unless ByteDance, the parent company of the app, sells their...

Opinion — Gypsy Rose Blanchard: Innocent influencer or glorified criminal?

Opinion — Gypsy Rose Blanchard: Innocent influencer or glorified criminal?

Megan Poe January 30, 2024

Since the prison release of Gypsy Rose Blanchard on December 28, 2023, the media has formed a split moral narrative about the now 32-year-old murder accomplice of her mother. Most of the controversy lies...

Alumnus and TikTok influencer to hold book reading

Alumnus and TikTok influencer to hold book reading

Akasha Khalsa, Opinion Editor April 12, 2022
Murphy will be reading from his self-published children’s book It Only Takes 1, which tells the story of him becoming an entrepreneur at age 13.

The harmful spreading of false information in media

Justin Van't Hof June 5, 2019

We are constantly connected. Since the invention of the Internet in the early 1990s, the way we get our news has changed drastically. Before the internet, newspapers were people’s main source of staying...

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