Can We Still Call this the New Year?

Volume 50 Issue 1 - February 14th, 2025 <3

Feb 20, 2025

We are ushering in the not-so-new year, and we hope you’ll usher on in with us. Published on the day for love, we are so happy to be coming home to our vibrant, incisive, ever-relevant newspaper (not to lean too much into the self-love). Take a moment, read awhile. And get excited for the countless many more issues coming your way.

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Cover (Love is All We Got) by Britney Garibay

Featured Articles

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For Metro of Issue 1, Layla Ahmed B’27, Arman Deendar B’25, and Talia Reiss B’27 expose the explicit links between members of the Brown Corporation and environmental destruction, enslaved labor, and Israel’s genocide against Gaza. All the while, the Corporation stifled community input and evaded transparency in deciding not to divest from social harm in Palestine.

“Amid UCS’s calls for the democratization of University governance, it is imperative to understand who currently serves on the Corporation. Unsurprisingly, many of the Corporation members are billionaires or come from families with billions in accumulated wealth … For many, their personal wealth is directly tied to Israel’s occupation of Palestine and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”

Read The ‘Causal Link’ in print or online here.

Illustration by Ruby Nemeroff.

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In this week’s issue of Feats, Luca Suarez B’26 examines the historical roots of the Republican Party’s Hispanic voter base through the unforgettable story of its most forgotten member. “There are only two clips of him available online: one is a two-minute interview on YouTube with nine likes, and the other is an hour-long recording of his Senate testimony during the Watergate investigation. Unbeknownst to many, he was the first Latino to run for president and the true mastermind behind Nixon’s 1972 victory.”

Read The First Latino President in print or online here.

Illustration by Benjamin Natan.

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For the opening issue of World, Hisham Awartani B’25 explores the history of Yugoslavia through an exploration of the beautiful game, football (soccer). From jubilant victories, to tearful moments of grief, to impressively acrobatic drop-kicks, the football field has played host to many of the most important moments in the rise and fall of the Yugoslav national project.

Read Boban’s Drop Kick in print or online here.

Illustration by Rosie Brantley.