Month: November 2014

Malala Yousafzai: A Truly "Nobel" Laureate?

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This October, Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize. She shared the award with Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi. At 17, Malala is the youngest ever Nobel laureate. Despite surviving an attack on her life and her ongoing activism, there are still those who question Malala’s merits. So what is the controversy? What do Harvard students think of … Read more

Malala Yousafzai: A Truly “Nobel” Laureate?

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This October, Malala Yousafzai won the Nobel Peace Prize. She shared the award with Indian activist Kailash Satyarthi. At 17, Malala is the youngest ever Nobel laureate. Despite surviving an attack on her life and her ongoing activism, there are still those who question Malala’s merits. So what is the controversy? What do Harvard students think of … Read more

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor

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While President Obama’s latest maneuver is sure to draw much more rhetoric and possibly some action from angered House and Senate Republicans, the true issue at hand is being completely avoided. Our perception of immigrants is fundamentally flawed and not ni line with the tradition of American democracy. President Obama’s executive action will grant legal standing to … Read more

The Ends Don’t Justify the Means

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No one denies that this country’s immigration system is badly, badly broken—a disturbing fact made even more pathetic by the fact that the nation prides itself on a culture of inclusion and a “melting pot” identity. Roughly 12 million undocumented workers live in the shadows, working, paying taxes, and raising children (who often are American citizens) while … Read more

It’s About Time Democrats Acted Like Democrats

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Even before President Obama announced his executive action overhauling the nation’s immigration system, the all-too-predictable Republican backlash was already in high gear. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) accused Obama of using “the tactics of a monarch,” soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) compared acting on immigration reform to “waving a red flag in front of … Read more

Continuing the Legacy of Executive Action

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President Obama’s executive action on immigration reform has sparked both gratitude and outrage across the country. To supporters, his address is viewed as the partial fulfillment of a long overdue campaign promise. To protesters, it only adds to the list of executive actions that seem to overstep his presidential powers. Regardless of ideological views, Obama’s executive … Read more

The Language of Climate Change

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On November 2, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its most ominous climate report yet, warning of irreversible climate change effects and the reality of the worsening environmental situation. Yet to many the report erred on the side of conservatism, and now that the U.S. midterm elections have ushered many politicians who … Read more

Be Very Afraid: How the Media Failed In Covering Ebola

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In Mississippi, parents pulled their children out of school after learning their principal had traveled to a part of Africa thousands of miles away from the Ebola outbreak. In New Jersey and Georgia, students from areas in Africa completely unscathed by the disease weren’t allowed to come to school. In Texas, a community college rejected … Read more

Wanted: News Station Graphic Designer

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Hey there! RGB Network News (motto: “Rite Now Tonite!”) is looking to hire a senior graphic designer for our news station. A little about us: We’ve tried just about everything to keep people watching televised news, and we found that using an obscene number of graphics—around three per second—holds the viewer’s attention longest. That, or … Read more