Op Ed

Guest Columns

Op-ed: Saying goodbye to my student-athlete family

By Shannon Scovel | April 29

Senior staff writer Shannon Scovel reflects on the lessons she has learned during as a student-athlete and student reporter

---

Guest Columns

Give me liberty, or give me safe spaces?

By Renee Ermer | April 28

In the era of safe spaces, trigger warnings and cultural appropriation, it is as if college students don’t understand the concept of free speech in society, let alone its necessity in getting the most out of college.

---

Guest Columns

Staff editorial: No Wonk of the Year, No Space on Campus

By The Eagle Editorial Board | April 26

The Kennedy Political Union recently announced that the University will not host their flagship “Wonk of the Year” event this semester due to scheduling issues.

---

Guest Columns

Straight from print: A reflection on Black leadership

By Devontae Torriente | April 22

As my term as your student body president comes to a close, I can’t help but think about what this time has meant to me. What I found most interesting, and painful, about the year is the role my race played in everything I did.

---

Guest Columns

AU, start supplying contraception for your student body

By Steph Black | April 14

Sophomore Steph Black argues for supplying free contraception through the Student Health Center

---

Guest Columns

The GOP’s car crash moment

By Tom Hebert | April 10

Trump’s patriotic populism vs. the GOP leadership’s checklist conservatism

---

Guest Columns

Op-ed: Reflections of a voluntourist: spring break in Haiti

By Brennon Thompson | March 29

People ask me, “How was it?” and I’m not sure they want to know my answer. I had the privilege of co-leading AU’s Alternative Break to Haiti, focusing on the success and failure of international aid.

---

Guest Columns

Op-ed: The Power of Sport

By Shannon Scovel | March 27

In 2001, USA Today sports journalist Christine Brennan wrote a column about her relationship with her father, Jim Brennan, in honor of his 75th birthday.

---

Guest Columns

Staff Editorial: Recyclemania

By The Eagle Editorial Board | March 27

AU has, for the third time, entered into Recyclemania. Recyclemania is a national contest that urges universities across the United States to reaffirm their commitment to reducing their carbon footprints through maximizing the amount of trash recycled on campus.

---

Guest Columns

Op-ed: With Haley we know what we are voting for

By Sasha Gilthorpe | March 21

Former AUSG President Sasha Gilthorpe endorses Haley Lickstein for SG president

---

Guest Columns

Op-ed: Taylor Dumpson is the student body president we need

By Devontae Torriente | March 20

AUSG President Devontae Torriente endorses Taylor Dumpson

---

Guest Columns

Op-ed: To Student Government candidates: Stop using survivors

By McKenzie Wilson | March 10

In the wake of AUSG elections, McKenzie Wilson sends a message to all candidates

---

Guest Columns

Op-ed: Giving Zero Facts

By Jack Williams | March 8

Remember when politicians were honest before the rise of Donald Trump’s alternative facts and fake news?

---

Guest Columns

Straight from print: AU liberals are failing

By Antonio Álvarez Ramirez | March 6

This article originally appeared in The Eagle's Feb. 24, 2017 special edition. On April 27, 1989, students across the People’s Republic of China took to the streets in an act of defiance against the repressive totalitarian government under which they lived.

---

Guest Columns

Op-ed: Driving progress towards equal pay

By Mary-Margaret Koch | March 3

“The Eagle” recently published a column on Audi’s Super Bowl commercial that drew attention to the company’s commitment to equal pay.

---

Guest Columns

Op-ed: “He’s just saying what we’re all thinking:” How political correctness fails us in the age of Trump

By Joe Henao | February 24

I wasn’t quite sure if it was a universal maxim, but I had heard friends of mine recite the humourous adage, “he’s just saying what we’re all thinking,” fictitiously assuming the role of the cucked Trump supporter proclaiming their admiration for our new Commander-in-Chief and his knack for stating the obscene, perverse and politically incorrect.

---

Guest Columns

Op-ed: AU is paying banks with your tuition money

By Erin Thomas | February 21

Financialization is defined as “increase in the size, scope, and power of the financial sector—the people and firms that manage money and underwrite stocks, bonds, derivatives, and other securities—relative to the rest of the economy.” In fact, only 15 percent of the money in our economic system winds up in the “real” economy.

---