Football culture in America does not have to reflect exploitation and indifference. It could prioritize player safety over ratings. It could guarantee long-term healthcare for former players. It could shift youth sports away from early high-impact drills and protect the health of young players. It could celebrate skill and strategy rather than highlight reel violence.

Football is not just another American commodity; it is a cultural symbol embedded in the nation’s very fabric.

Classes purposefully designed to demoralize students — think Organic Chemistry or Dynamics — are antithetical to the goals of higher education.

Why, then, am I qualified to talk about weed-out classes? Because I am evidence that they work.

Reality TV indiscriminately and routinely proves to be harmful to viewers, contestants, and, worst of all, children. If you simultaneously criticize porn for all its flaws and habitually engorge the mental rot that is reality TV, you are a hypocrite.

People often dismiss the consumption of reality TV as a “guilty pleasure” and regard it as lowbrow, but I feel no embarrassment about my love for it. Beneath the chaos and confessionals, there is something that is worth taking seriously.

The idea that WashU specifically needs D-I sports to build a stronger WashU identity is misguided — D-I sports won’t change anything unless there is a serious culture change at this school when it comes to supporting our teams. The absence of school spirit, especially surrounding our women’s sports, more than our Division III status, explains why some say WashU lacks identity.

A half-assed rebrand will not be enough to propel us to our place in the sun. To do that, we need to shock the collegiate world and establish a D-I football team.

But it is not the safety of the vaccine which I am most worried about but rather the social consequence of an unsafe or otherwise botched process of vaccine distribution.

While some skeptics say that we shouldn’t trust a vaccine developed so quickly, I believe we don’t have much of a choice.