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Proposals are sometimes too extravagant.

Extravagant Promposals: Too Much Pressure

Hope Rosenblatt, Eastside Opinions Editor May 23, 2016

Candles are lit, balloons are floating through the air, fireworks are exploding in the background. Suddenly you look up and there’s skywriting above spelling out your name in the clouds and you hear...

Jury Duty is an important right every American citizen has.

Jury Duty is a Privilege

Jared Fisch, Eastside Underground Editor May 9, 2016

Jury duty. When growing up, most kids hear about jury duty from their parents. A common view held by those parents tends to be that jury duty is a nuisance. I can recall a countless number of times...

Turn off your cell phone and enjoy the show

Turn off your cell phone and enjoy the show

Hope Rosenblatt, Eastside Opinions Editor April 19, 2016

The lights have dimmed, the previews are over, and the opening scene of the movie you have been waiting almost a whole year to see slowly fades onto the big screen. In the midst of shoving your extra buttery...

Reality TV sets unrealistic expectations about the way people should live life.

Reality TV promotes bad motives

Louis Zimmermann, Eastside Staff April 10, 2016

Reality TV shows seem to display an alternate reality of living that includes all of the riches that one could want and a luxurious lifestyle filled with anything ranging from designer shoes to yachts....

Young children can face a risk of online predators on social media accounts.

Children must use social media with more care

Eric First, Eastside Staff April 5, 2016

Over the past 16 years, the world has been introduced to some of the most popular social media services such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat. A growing issue of concern, however, is that many...

Weight-training can be very dangerous; freshman and sophomores should wait until they are upper-classmen before they decide to take weight room.

Freshmen and Sophomores should not be allowed to take weight room

Rahul Goculdas, Eastside Staff April 5, 2016

Weight lifting is dangerous. According to a statistic from Nicholas Bakalar of the New York Times, “From 1990 to 2007, nearly a million Americans wound up in emergency rooms with weight-training injuries...

The 2016 Olympic Games will be held in Brazil.

Athletes participating in the 2016 Olympic Games worry about the growing Zika Virus in Brazil

Eric First, Eastside Staff April 5, 2016

The growing scare of the Zika virus in Brazil has left athletes from around the world contemplating whether they should participate in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. Zika has quickly spread throughout...

Computerized essay grader shows increase in use of technology

Computerized essay grader shows increase in use of technology

Louis Zimmermann, Eastside Staff April 1, 2016

Technology surrounds us and consumes our life whether it be for school work or pure pleasure. However, may the rapid increase of technology be too high? According to The Emerging Future, a company...

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Women need to be recognized as a part of our history

Shari Boiskin, Eastside Opinions Editor March 18, 2016

Women make up 50.8 percent of the world’s 7,404,976,783 person population. That means that there are 3,761,728,205 women. Yet, for some reason, women, throughout time have been, and still are, treated...

Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again, is not the nice mantra it seems to be.

Donald Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again” is meaningless

Shari Boiskin, Eastside Opinions Editor March 6, 2016

Most people know presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign slogan: “Make America Great Again.” Initially, looking at the slogan, to me it sounded like a nice patriotic mantra. However, when...

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Facebook profile pictures – not an expression of sympathy during tragedy

Rose Ni, Eastside Staff February 8, 2016

Days after the horrific attack in Paris, my newsfeed flooded with Facebook profile pictures. Many people started to filter their profile photos into red, blue and white bars. Embarrassed, I realized I...

Living to Eat or Eating to Live?

Living to Eat or Eating to Live?

Rose Ni, Eastside Staff February 3, 2016

Almost two-thirds of adults in the U.S. are overweight or obese today, compared to 23 percent in the 1980s. The average American is now 23 pounds heavier than his or her ideal body weight. The National...

Rock will help convey message of diversity at Academy Awards

Rock will help convey message of diversity at Academy Awards

Hope Rosenblatt, Eastside Opinions Editor February 3, 2016

With the Golden Globes appearing this past month and the Grammys and Academy Awards set to air on our screens this February, award show season is undeniably in full-swing. However, ever since the Academy...

New app “Peeple” encourages cyberbullying

New app “Peeple” encourages cyberbullying

Louis Zimmermann, Eastside Staff January 28, 2016

Apps such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat all fall under one category called social media. Over the years, social media apps have influenced an enormous amount of cyber bullying, surrounding...

Women deserve to be treated and have the same rights as men.

Reasons why Feminism is Relevant

Jenna Simons, Eastside Staff January 27, 2016

Since the first women’s rights convention in 1848, women have been fighting men for equality. More than 150 years later, women are still fighting to be given all the same rights and chances that men...

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