The Rubicon

[STAFF EDITORIAL] Understand climate change in context

The Rubicon Staff • October 7, 2020

Climate change won't go away when 2020 ends. This year isn't the cause of the disasters: humans are.

Eco-awareness should coexist with health precautions

Liv Larsen, RubicOnline • October 5, 2020

Efforts to maintain student and faculty health generate an excess amount of plastic waste.

High school athletes can and should use their voices

Will Schavee, RubicOnline • September 30, 2020

A team can raise up the voices of the individual members of the team through unity and support.

[SUSTAINABILITY & ETHICS] What’s in your Starbucks cup? Probably slave labor.

Elizabeth Trevathan, Director of RubicOnline • September 23, 2020

On March 1, Starbucks released a message from Michelle Burns, senior vice president for global coffee and tea, stating that on the next day, a UK news show entitled Dispatches would air a program on child...

[STAFF EDITORIAL] It’s not always partisan

RubicOnline Staff • September 23, 2020

Activism on the internet blurs the line between social and political issues.

Trump’s ban on WeChat is nothing more than petty oppression

Elle Chen, Production Manager • September 19, 2020

While Trump’s reasoning behind banning both WeChat and TikTok is due to “national security” and data collection concerns, the impacts his decisions will have on many WeChat users in the states is extremely horrifying and devastating.

Cut teachers slack; they’re the ones holding the rope

Tommy Verhey, RubicOnline • September 18, 2020

Distance learning is difficult for teachers as well and students need to understand that.

Are we really prepared to go back to school? Yes.

Thomas Reinhart, RubicOnline • September 17, 2020

The back to school plan does everything possible to make it safe for students to return to the building.

Use social media to support action, not to perform

Mimi Huelster, Illustrator • July 3, 2020

Your social media platform should be just the beginning -- not the end -- of your work for social justice.

[STAFF EDITORIAL] Use your summer to be a part of the COVID-19 solution

RubicOnline Staff • June 2, 2020

It's important that you check your privilege this summer and use it to help those in need; they're just as important as the rest of us.

It’s a pandemic; don’t worry about grades

Colin Will, Opinions Editor • May 27, 2020

Everyone seems to be handling the challenges of this pandemic differently. And that’s okay.

[STAFF EDITORIAL] Honor social distancing protocols this summer

The Rubicon Staff • May 26, 2020

Although regulations have been made less restrictive it is important to continue social distancing and limit exposure to others as there is still a long road ahead.