Posts published in “On Campus”

For many, February 14 is a day filled with kitschy gifts and valentines. However, for the city of Parkland and surrounding communities, that date will represent a far grimmer event, where 17 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Douglas) students, teachers, and coaches lost their lives and another 14 were injured in a school shooting. The identified shooter was a former Douglas student who was expelled from the school. No one can predict when something like this will happen and it is always unfortunate when this becomes a reality. With this being said, it comes as no surprise to find that school and public facilities may decide to order a turnstile from Daosafe, for example, in the hopes of increasing the level of security.…

I was five years old the first time I visited my family in rural West Virginia.

I travelled to my grandparents’ hometown of Beckley on the train with my grandma, a 13-hour journey that to five-year-old me felt like being transported to a completely different world. How was it possible that a place could look so different, that people could be so different, but still call the same country home? I remember being overwhelmed by this unshakable feeling, but not being totally able to explain why. It was not until later that I learned the proper term to describe those emotions: culture shock.…