Month: May 2021

Mary Sues and How to Fix Them

BY ALICE FONTANESI

STAFF WRITER

If you’ve ever written stories, then chances are that you made one of your characters a Mary Sue (or Gary Stew for masculine characters). As most people know it, a Mary Sue is a perfect character with no flaws, everyone likes them, and the world basically revolves around them. What people don’t realize is that Mary Sue is honestly a term that is thrown around quite loosely. There is no dictionary definition of a Mary Sue, but there are definitely defining characteristics of one.

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Tips to Write a Song

BY CREIGHTON LEWIS

STAFF WRITER

Like many artistic pursuits, there’s no real right or wrong way to write a song. Each artist is different, and only telling you the way that I do it could be in the completely opposite order of what works best for you. Depending on whether you have a way with words, know how to encode double meanings and have the patience to come back to something, change it, hate it, and love different parts of it  every single day will determine whether you have the ability to write a song. The more critical you are on yourself and the more time and resources you have, the better. 

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Asexuality Myths

BY ALAINA INOUYE

COMMUNICATIONS EDITOR-IN-TRAINING

In honor of the first International Asexuality Day, which took place on April 6th, this article will bust some of the myths about asexuality. Asexuality is a commonly misunderstood sexuality, and there is a lot of misinformation about it in the media and online. This article aims to help people understand acespec identities more and be a better ally. 

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The Current GPU Market

BY LOGAN SCHLOSSER

WEBMASTER

Hello everyone, and welcome to another one of my completely well-thought-of articles! Today we will be discussing an issue that is near and dear to all computer gamers. Now, this is an issue that has been going on ever since COVID-19 hit but was made especially worse during the release of NVIDIA and AMD’s new, top-of-the-line graphics cards. So without further ado, let’s get into it!

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How to Build a Gaming PC

BY LOGAN SCHLOSSER

STAFF WRITER

So I tend to recommend a lot of games when it comes to my reviews, but you actually need a system to play these on, right?! This is where this article comes in. Today I will be instructing you to the best of my abilities how to build your very own, top-of-the-line gaming machine. I chose to talk about PC gaming today because all of the games I recommend in my articles are available on the PC platform. So with that introduction out of the way, let’s get started!

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Georgia Voting Law

BY LYNNE INOUYE AND SYDNEY WESCHCKE

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF IN TRAINING AND STAFF WRITER

Absentee and mail voting is one of the top issues when it comes to election-related bills, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows, after looking at nearly 1,800 examples. It remains a frequent debate in the realm of politics, with Democrats supporting a shift to ballots cast by mail, and Republicans, like Donald Trump and other high-ranking ones, speaking strongly against it. This divide also has influenced voter trends, with mail-in votes tending to be largely Democratic. For example, in the 2020 elections, two-thirds of people who voted by mail voted for President Biden, according to AP VoteCast. Generally speaking, this fits with the trend that Democrats lean towards making voting easier, while Republicans aim to place more restrictions. 

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