Drunken scientists forgot to turn the clock back an hour; turns out everything’s okay! On Jan. 23, 2020, it was announced that the Doomsday Clock, a symbol of humanity’s ever-shrinking embrace with extinction, had been moved to 100 seconds to midnight. Reporters say at the time of that announcement, millions of people across the world […]
Author: Brian Kwiecinski
Intervention best way to combat sexual assault
Taking the initiative and stepping up during compromising situations can drastically reduce the number of sexual assaults. 10 minutes of silence resounded across the Old U as a sea of students and faculty in black stood in support of sexual assault survivors. Violence Prevention Program Coordinator Kelsey Hancock and other campus groups came together to […]
Handshake replaces Golden OpporTUnities
Handshake serves in place of Golden OpporTUnities as a hub for student internships, job positions and more. Handshake is an online job-search platform with many functions, built specifically for students. It was introduced this year as TU’s replacement for Golden OpporTUnities. Students can upload digital résumés, look at job listings, check on upcoming campus events, […]
Finding yourself can wait
It’s key to remain flexible and patient during college, despite the pressure to define yourself. Whether it is from stereotypes in movies and shows or our own hopes and dreams, we associate college with a lot of different personal milestones. In these four years, we search for so many things. We try to find a […]
Improve TU #16: Offer fairs for students to shop for majors
Students who have not yet decided on a major will be able to get an in-depth look at each with a fair. In university life, someone’s major tends to play a large part in their identity. One of the first questions many students ask when they first meet is “Oh, what’s your major” and the […]
Cybersecurity in the digital age of insecurity
Dr. Susan Landau, a visiting professor from Tufts University, discussed the conflict in the digital age between privacy and security. The age of information is in full swing, and data is the new and readily available currency. However, not everyone is happy about how easy information is to access, even if it could lead to […]
Google’s Arts & Culture app lacks class
TU undesirable used a recent update to the Google Arts & Culture app, which matches their face to a famous painting, and it ended as well as you’d expect. Yet again, Silicon Valley has slighted me. In many cases, being compared to a work of art is flattering. However, when Google tells me my selfie […]
Point/counterpoint: Apps, phones make blue lights obsolete
New technology has made the blue lights on campus effectively useless, and the money could be better spent elsewhere. The University of Tulsa blue lights: what exactly do these lights provide? Security or false hope? There was a time when these lights were exactly what college campuses needed, but that time has passed. Before cell […]