Wolf’s Eye View: Remembrance and Rebirth in New York
On the week of March 13, I accompanied the St. Paul’s Journalism class on an educational trip to the Columbia Scholastic Press Association conference in New York, along with visits to the 9/11 Memorial, the New York financial district, Times Square, NBC and the Statue of Liberty. The school field trip felt more like a […]
Netflix Loses Variety, Should it Lose Your Business?
Netflix, the popular internet video streaming service, has been making changes to its lineup recently. Among the numerous additions and subtractions, many shows originally aired on television have been dropped while the company has added many of its own original productions, which are available exclusively on Netflix. Among the 108 titles removed from streaming in the […]
What Can We Do about the Mass Shooting Epidemic?
After one of the deadliest mass shootings in the history of the United States of America, citizens are yet again torn on the issue of gun control. On Wednesday, Feb. 14, the fire alarm at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was activated and gunshots rang out as a previous student began a […]
Seniors: Odds Are, You’ll End Up Back in Louisiana. So, Consider Going to College in Another State
Louisiana possesses the greatest percentage of locally-born residents throughout the United States, revealing that Louisiana is the least regionally-diverse state in the nation. According to a 2012 statistical study performed by The New York Times, 79% of Louisiana residents were born locally in Louisiana, where they have maintained residency all their lives. If possible, students […]
OPINION: Government Must Regulate ISPs — History’s Lesson on Monopolies
Today (Dec. 14), the FCC votes on a repeal of Net Neutrality, a set of regulations for internet service providers (ISPs), the companies that provide internet access to millions of Americans. The regulations prevent ISPs from selectively blocking, slowing or charging higher fees for its services. Many oppose Net Neutrality because its regulations entangle the […]
OPINION: Nobody Wins When Sexual Assault Gets Political
Two months after the Weinstein accusations, we are learning that our highest ranking elected officials are not as clean as the virtues they preach. Three of the most prominent men in D.C. that have been accused of sexual assault are senatorial candidate Roy Moore (R-AL), Senator Al Franken (D-MN), and Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). As […]
OPINION: Eradicate the Two-Party System, Vote Your Values
“However (political parties) may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines […]
WOLF’S EYE VIEW: Silent Retreat Provides Self-Awareness for Students
(CONVENT, La.) Each year, St. Paul’s juniors are offered the opportunity to attend Manresa House of Retreats, a retreat center in Convent, Louisiana, on the Mississippi River. This year, the mostly-silent retreat was led by Campus Minister Jeff Ramon. When we got off the bus, we were all surprised by the size of the retreat […]
OPINION: Recent Mass Shootings Encourage Desensitization
The dramatic escalation of mass shootings in the United States in the past 15 years has caused a drastic desensitization to violence and death chiefly among younger generations who have only grown up to know this horrendous reality of shootings becoming commonplace. Mass killings and gun violence have been existent on U.S. soil for years; […]
