Your vacation can wait
As the threat of the coronavirus increases throughout the world, we have been desperately urged to practice social distancing in order to limit the spread of infection and flatten the curve. In doing my part, […]
Articles by McKenzie Ward
The importance of voting in the presidential primaries
Next Tuesday, Mar. 3 is the Massachusetts Primary for the 2020 presidential election. Massachusetts will be one of the 14 states participating in super Tuesday – the day when the most states in the country […]
The importance of the birds and the bees
In 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ranked Massachusetts as the state with the lowest birth rates among teenage girls ages 15 to 19. But just because teenage pregnancies may be falling, […]
More than just five stages
I sat in the cafeteria of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. over my January break when a tsunami of grief swallowed my family. News of my great Aunt Patty’s death poured through the cracks […]
Strive for a 5
During my four years in high school, I took five Advanced Placement (AP) classes. Advanced Placement is a program run by College Board, a non-profit organization that allows high school students to take college courses […]
What happens when we forget?
Twelve states. One would think that in the United States, there would be mandatory education about the Holocaust. But currently, there are only 12 states that require it. Massachusetts is not one. According to a […]
Taking ownership of our future
Truth be told, as an SGA senator, I may be a little biased toward a push for civics classes for high school students. However, my bias does not lessen the importance of the values civics […]
The truth about Columbus
How did a man who never even stepped foot in the United States somehow get an entire holiday dedicated to him finding it? Take everything you learned about Christopher Columbus and throw it out. It […]
Putting an end to the romanticizing and normalizing of abusive relationships
In 2019, why do people still want to find their Romeo? Did they even bother to read the end of the play? Romanticizing abusive and unhealthy relationships in the media is nothing new. Shakespeare did […]
A degree is a degree
The brutally honest truth – when you are 40 years old, no one will actually care where you went to college. Last year, during my senior year of high school, I was so excited to […]