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New columnists to address both the political and personal Welcome back to school, Aggies! It’s wonderful to be back on campus, and just a quick look around will tell you why: The Quad is full of energy and excitement, the leaves are changing colors, the first-years are looking panicked in the chaos of the bike […]

Robert E. Lee and other Confederate leaders were traitors, not patriots There’s something deeply misguided about the clamor and rage from those opposing the removal of Confederate monuments from public spaces. It’s as if the monuments themselves were living vestiges of a bygone era of glory and nostalgic wonderment. This is, of course, exactly the […]

Rethinking how we interpret the past Do you ever look into the past and wonder why you consider a certain historical actor a hero or a villain? Or how you may think positively of someone you thought was benevolent, while others may vilify the person for the very same actions? Now ask yourself: Who taught […]

The first female superhero with a female director provides lessons for women of all ages I’ll start off by stating this: I’m completely biased in favor of the success of the Wonder Woman franchise. When I was just four years old, I used to watch Wonder Woman in cartoon form every week with my dad. […]

High housing prices and a shortage of houses threaten California’s future In light of a dismaying history of voting down legislation vital to mitigating California’s housing crisis, state officials announced that they will finally prioritize finding solutions to the soaring housing and rent prices, increased homelessness and severe undersupply of houses afflicting counties across the […]

In high school, I wrote an analysis of the future of journalism as part of my senior project: “Although the landscape is morphing, journalism is as healthy and alive as ever, and it’s not going away anytime soon. The battle with extinction continues, but journalists seem to be holding the upper hand.” The California Aggie […]

Davis asexuals discuss experiences of being overlooked members of the LGBTQIA community When Claire Rapp was in high school, she began to notice a difference between her and the rest of her classmates. Rapp, who had numerous relationships with religious men practicing abstinence, was confused as to why she able to brush off sex so […]

Modern science fiction looks to the past instead of the future Science fiction, by definition, is a genre about the future. It’s about places we haven’t discovered and technologies not yet invented. In all cases, sci-fi looks beyond the real, modern world and tries to think of what might become rather than what is. Yet […]

Opinion Editor Eli Flesch on four life-changing years of college journalism It took me a long time to figure out exactly what Joan Didion meant in Slouching Towards Bethlehem when she wrote that “writers are always selling somebody out.” After four years of working on The Aggie’s opinion desk — two as its editor — […]

The future of agriculture is in arts and humanities A recent KQED Radio forum on the topic of the graying, demographically homogenous agricultural industry discusses possible ways to rejuvenate the $37 billion industry employing 800,000 Californians. The general consensus among featured guests, who are all farmers, is that in order to save the industry from […]

CHOCOLATE CHIP — Noah Pflueger-Peters I think Eli is a good guy, but I never knew he could be so wrong about cookies. Allow me to right his wrongs. I’d like to preface this by saying that I’m not arguing that oatmeal raisin cookies are bad, simply that they are and forever will be inferior […]

Millennials abandon conservative fashion of the 70s and 80s There have been many fashion trends throughout the years that define each generation and its respective cultural identity. But what constitutes the Millennial generation’s typical fashion choices, and how do these express its culture and identity? Navigating through the decades starting with the 1940s, we’ll examine […]