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The sports world has been essentially turned upside down since March of 2020. League schedules/seasons have been rearranged due to COVID-19. With that being said, it’s pretty safe to say that professional sports are back up and running (with just […]

Opinions

The Double Standard of Fighting Culture in Professionals Sports

by athopinions
Published November 19, 2020

Think back to your high school English class: your teacher has assigned the short-story “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Most students either love English or hate it. If you were one of the students that hated English […]

Features

Women and Their Woes: The Pain Gap

by Katie Winters
Published November 19, 2020

I did it to feel alive – the air is heavy and wet a humid paradise.   Tendrils of forsythia shudder in the breeze golden leaves and pink petals leech into the sky. There is always a stranger involved – […]

Creative

Why?

by Jenna Yorke
Published November 19, 2020

There are a few common things that almost every dancer will experience. The first is that achieving the perfect ballet bun means experiencing the most excruciating amount of pain one could possibly imagine and then solidifying your fate under more […]

Sports & Wellness

Dance Like Nobody Is Watching: Overcoming Dance Culture

by Gwenn Firth
Published November 17, 2020

There comes a time in every woman’s life where her ovaries stop the production of eggs and her estrogen and progesterone levels begin to decline. Over a period of time, monthly menstruation becomes less frequent, this period is referred to […]

Science

Menopause

by Tanvi Dabas
Published November 17, 2020

I should start off by saying that I think sex-positivity is a great movement: when it is done right. For those who haven’t heard the term before, it was coined in the 1990’s but has really taken off on social […]

Opinions

The Pitfalls of Sex Positivity

by Cameron Smith
Published November 16, 2020

For the past few years, there has been a push for more women in the workplace, especially in fields that are predominately male. While more female representation is needed in spaces dominated by men, the reality of being a woman […]

Editorials

The Reality of Being a Women in the Workplace

by Rylie Moscato
Published November 16, 2020
Electoral Map

On Saturday, November 7th, Joe Biden was named the 46th president-elect of the United States of America. And while there are still uncertainties concerning the peaceful transition of power, many countries breathed a sigh of relief at the announcement. Because […]

News

Biden won, why should we care?

by Axel Eschholz
Published November 14, 2020

Recently, a lot of businesses and organizations have received backlash for not being ethically conscious with their products. Issues within clothing companies especially are being brought to consumers’ attention, since clothing stores so often manufacture unethically sourced products. This impacts […]

Arts & Culture

Consumption Culture & Why It’s an Issue

by Kate Robart
Published November 10, 2020

I’ve never seen God, but my brother did once. In 2007, hopelessly lost on a hiking trail in northern France, he stumbled across a field of matted grass. A train was passing through the field. He watched the windows of […]

Creative

God said cigarettes.

by Max Gustafson
Published November 9, 2020

This year, our scientists did not fail to amaze us with yet another fascinating discovery. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna received Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for the discovery of one of the gene world’s essential and sharpest tools; […]

Science

Genetic Scissors, The Tool That Will Serve to Rewrite the Code of Life: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

by Tanvi Dabas
Published November 9, 2020

Change in Scenery As our years pass in Wolfville focused on school, extracurriculars, and friends, we occasionally forget to immerse ourselves in everything our little town has to offer. Even at the places we drop-by, there is plenty more to […]

Sports & Wellness

the reality of being a woman in the workplace

by Liddy Greer
Published November 9, 2020

Each step is purposeful and calculated. The forest seems to remember me, almost as much as I remember her. But the mountain does not, his rocks quake underneath my feet as                    […]

Creative

He Taunts

by Rylie Moscato
Published November 2, 2020

For a long time, the moon has been thought of as waterless, though recently, numerous researchers have discovered water in some parts of the moon. New observations by the SOFIA telescope and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter by NASA reveal traces of water in […]

Science

Water traced on Moon: Another Achievement by NASA

by Tanvi Dabas
Published November 2, 2020

One definition of ableism is the discrimination of those with disabilities in favour of able-bodied people. However, Hailey Davis, a fourth-year music therapy major at Acadia says that this applies to all disabilities and is really something in need of […]

News

Ableism and Accessibility at Acadia

by Jenna Bouwman
Published November 2, 2020

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