Category: Editorials
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Tips n’ Tricks from a Boba-Barista!
By: Suryka Kom Now, how often is it that you find yourself on the opposite end of a tip screen—forced out of social politeness to add on an extra 15% fee for your now $8.09 drink? How long does that drink last you? If you’re slow, maybe an okay iced drink (excluding fast drinkers) is…
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Salem Savors
By: Alex Angelini The Refectory, for all its flaws, has gotten a lot better since I first started here at Salem College. For once, most of the time, things are labeled! Now you don’t have to guess what things are or rely on the unreliable menu website (which, for the record, has also gotten better)!…
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Cobblestone & Cardigans Mix
By: Neva Mellow Hello, reader. Go ahead and take a moment to step outside and look around. Do you see the fall leaves? Do you feel the change of the seasons? The change you’ve gone through from the year before? If you can relate to loving pumpkin spice, being open to trying new things, and…
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Best Fall Movie Recommendations
By: Taylor Cook As we enter the best season of the year, there are so many things to start doing. If you haven’t already, go ahead and start decorating. Maybe have a Halloween costume in the works, and start watching all the fall-themed movies! In crafting this movie watchlist, I have revisited many of my…
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Miss Magnolia
Submission: A man messaged me on Facebook saying that he saw me on a dating app I do have a profile on, and he is kinda cute, but the thing is, he is kinda weird and tried to follow and connect with me on all my socials. What should I do? Btw, this is not…
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Finding Strength in Song: Alyssa Cashwell’s Music Journey
By: Lauren Hutchens At Salem College, creativity takes many forms, but for 20-year-old student Alyssa Cashwell, music has become both a passion and a source of healing. As an interior design major with a business minor, Cashwell balances her artistic eye for spaces with her love for writing and performing songs. Her journey with music…
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Traveling Troubadours: “When Dawn Breaks In Dublin.”
Words and Photographs By: Clare Buchanan “I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin, I can get to the heart of all the cities in the world. In the particular is contained the universal.” – James Joyce I arrived in Dublin off a train from Belfast. I’ve wanted…
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Traveling Troubadours: “Tiocfaidh ár lá!”
Words and Photographs By: Clare Buchanan Tiocfaidh ár lá. Our day will come. … March came suddenly. After two months of feeling like I was in a standstill, trapped in the East Midlands of England, nursing the sores of my past in the empty, grandiose halls of a Jacobean manor, I found myself clinging onto…
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Traveling Troubadours: “The Seedy Underbelly of St. Ives.”
By: Clare Buchanan St. Ives is a charming port town nestled on a small peninsula overlooking the sea in Cornwall. Named after Saint Ia, an Irish princess and missionary who arrived on the peninsula on a giant leaf in the 5th century, St. Ives exists today as a celebration of nautical tradition and offers some…
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Are You on the Right Side of History?: A Commentary on Gender and Sexuality
By Sophie Kazmierczak Historically, those in power who have strongly opposed the queer community, have never been and never will be the good guys. It is no mystery that people with differing sexual identities have existed since the dawn of time. The spectrum of sexuality will continue to grow and evolve along with the people it…
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