When PC Culture Goes too Far

Shradha Krishnamurthy, Entertainment Editor

December 17, 2018

With the recent wave of backlash and spotlights on institutions such as Harvard University and their alleged screening of Asian-American applicants, the national conversation is turning to social boundaries— what constitutes them, and should they be enforced? This has led to political correctness be...

We don’t need no stinkin’ pledges

October 28, 2015

Why the Pledge of Allegiance is unnecessary By Tiffany Lin | VTV Editor It’s not every day a government institution decides that it is necessary for a large group of people to chant together while praising an inanimate object. Unless that inanimate object is the American flag. This year, Irvington h...

A Decade Passed

Japjot Bal

September 15, 2011

America memorializes the victims of 9/11 on its 10-year anniversary.  A decade ago, on September 11, Americans witnessed the monstrosity of a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Mere minutes after this horrific shock America paradoxically united and separated. As citizens join...