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Aniekan’s Corner

Live & In-Person. It still feels like yesterday I was a nervous freshman sitting inside the Good Five Cent Cigar office waiting for sports stories to be pitched, wondering if I made the right decision to join the student newspaper.  I had no intention of getting into sports writing and reporting after spending my senior…

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Suicide prevention has to go further

Trigger warning: suicide.  September is Suicide Prevention Month, and as it comes to a close, I’d like to say a few things about how we as a society go about the idea of “suicide prevention.”  Obviously, suicide prevention is incredibly important. When you’re suicidal, you don’t see any other way out. Dying is the only…

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Who Cares? I Do: Go away girlbosses!

The term girlboss has recently reentered pop culture and I could not be more annoyed about it.  For those who are unfamiliar with the term, according to Urban Dictionary, “girlboss” is a verb defined as, “to make something or someone appear as a feminist idol or inspiration for profit, despite the numerous flaws of the…

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