Mia Osmonbekov

A well-known conservative provocateur took the stage on February 8 at Gammage to thunderous applause.

As he grabbed the microphone, Charlie Kirk looked every bit the young, charismatic leader of America’s populist right-wing movement, with a winning smile and disarming manner that instantly inspired confidence.

He then called Barrett, the Honors College professors, "intellectual midgets" and "cowards"– moments of hostility that kicked off the absurdly childish “Health, Wealth and Happiness” saga.

Google, Meta and Microsoft recently laid off tens of thousands of workers, unnerving career seeking students and demonstrating tech's jaw-dropping apathy toward its labor force.

Telling someone you are currently a humanities major is just another way of saying you don't mind being unemployed for the rest of your life.

But that's not the case, and it's time to give up the myth that studying humanities is a waste of time or a hindrance in the job market.

In a time when ambiguity is at the forefront of college admissions, ASU's increasingly transparent expectations for incoming freshmen are revolutionary. If the nation's higher education institutions want to rebuild trust in their admissions processes, ASU's recent initiative should be its blueprint.

The Arizona Teachers Academy recently received $15 million to fund more tuition scholarships given to teachers if they stay in Arizona. This measure attempts to address Arizona's worsening teacher shortage by covering the tuition costs of aspiring teachers. Although well-intentioned, increasing teacher scholarships is a laughable Band-Aid solution that fails to resolve Arizona's escalating teacher crisis.

Universities across the nation are banning TikTok from campus WiFi networks and devices, and half of U.S. states have blocked access to the app on government devices.

Banning TikTok is, at best, an adequate response to secure data. At worst, it’s a response that risks the future of student community building.

Despite coming into politics in a right-leaning battleground state, Arizona Democrats Mark Kelly and Katie Hobbs beat out their Republican counterparts. Young voters drove home their win.

Exit poll data shows that 76% and 71% of voters ages 18-29 voted for Kelly and Hobbs, respectively. Young voters had the second-highest midterm turnout in 30 years, a factor that turned the tide against a predicted red wave.