Welcome to Retrospect
Dear readers, Welcome to the 2018-2019 year in Retrospect! We can’t wait to get to know each and every one of our writers and hope that their voices will help you to find… Continue reading
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Respect, It’s a Thing
by Eleanor Clements and Camryn Parsons Eleanor: When I was younger, I agreed with most everything my parents thought. As most kids do. My dad loved to express his political opinions but after… Continue reading
A Conversation about Conversation
by Stephanie Kaiser and Yardena Carmi Recently, we sat down and had a conversation about Danez Smith and Hieu Minh Nguyen’s assembly and the community’s response to it. We discussed how our experience… Continue reading
The Case for Open Speech on Campus
by Alison Xin This piece was written for the City Club of Cleveland’s 2018 Hope and Stanley Adelstein Free Speech Essay Contest. The prompt was as follows: “In the past year, college campuses… Continue reading
Free Speech on Campuses
by Grace McCarthy “No Grace shut up you don’t know what you’re saying, you’re lucky you’re a chick. I mean, if I was a girl my parents wouldn’t expect shit from me—like they… Continue reading
Muted
by Farah Sayed
In Defense of Being Challenged
by Casey Beiswenger In most politically charged conversations I have had over the past two years, I have often felt the need to explain my political position in order to avoid being lumped… Continue reading
General Discourse in Response to the Assembly
by Anna Doak Before starting this article, I want to establish where it comes from. I am personally very liberal, so I didn’t have any problems with what Danez Smith said at the… Continue reading
It’s Time to Argue with The Sun
by Jasmine Hanna-Funk On Parks and Recreation, midlevel government employee Leslie Knope gets into an argument with her husband and coworker Ben Wyatt about farmers’ markets at work, and Ben is frustrated not… Continue reading
Identity Crisis
Identity Crisis By: Linda Yu I’m sitting at my table in the living room, which is covered with a mess of different colored sticky notes, mugs filled with writing utensils, and other really… Continue reading
Cleveland Institute of Art Pre-College Program
By: Sophie Carey Over this past summer, I took a course at the Cleveland Institute of Art’s Pre- College Program. The lifestyle was like that of a real college student. We got to… Continue reading