Nothing compares to the excitement of live music. Whether it is the deep hum of the powerful bass that rattles in your ears or the rush of excitement, you feel when your favorite artist finally emerges onto the stage, attending a concert is an experience like no other.

ZHIVOTOVSKI: Concert experience is ruined by outrageous ticket prices

The 95th Academy Awards included many important wins. One in particular that stands out is Best Actress Michelle Yeoh, the lead in the Best Picture film, "Everything Everywhere All at Once."

KOLI: Why Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar win is monumental

Rutgers Missed Connections is an Instagram page dedicated to sharing posts anonymously submitted by fellow Rutgers students about interactions they wished they had with another person. 

CRUZ: College students should not fear social rejection

As kids and even students, our first jobs will likely be hourly minimum-wage jobs. When working my summer job, I got paid equal to, if not more, than some of my male co-workers since I had been working at the establishment for longer than they had.

PARK: Have workplace glass ceilings really been broken?

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The 95th Oscars Award Ceremony was recently held on March 12. And while there is no doubt that this kind of talent recognition is significant for the Hollywood elite and their trophy shelves, what relevance does it serve for the common person as they watch from their significantly less ornate living room?

EDITORIAL: Do award shows matter?

With Rutgers' spring break practically here, now is the time to examine not just the function of structured academic breaks but also the many reasons why students may choose to take time off from school.

EDITORIAL: Normalize gap years for all types of reasons

On Saturday, The New York Times Editorial Board released an editorial detailing a new defamation bill within the Florida House of Representatives and emphasizing the alarming implications of its potential passage.

EDITORIAL: Political leaders must keep their hands off free speech

As announced on Tuesday, the Rutgers American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers (AAUP-AFT) has opened a vote on whether Rutgers' faculty will authorize a strike in order to negotiate their contracts with the administration.

EDITORIAL: How would potential AAUP-AFT strike affect students?

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The argument has been made that pain "does not simply resist language but actively destroys it," according to Elaine Scarry's book "The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World."

COMMENTARY: My mental health or Rutgers' liability?

The only thing Rutgers football loses more than sports games is money. Since joining the Big Ten Conference back in 2014, the University’s athletic department has accumulated $265 million in debt, with almost $125 million of an operating deficit having built up over the past two years.

COMMENTARY: Rutgers' priorities are all mixed up

We are Rutgers’ — and all of academia’s — underpaid and exploited dirty little secret. Part-time lecturers. Adjuncts. Higher education’s gig workers. And the University could not run without us.

COMMENTARY: Why we speak

Like many people, I am ready to stop letting the pandemic control my life. The virus is still here, it always will be, and everyone (including you and me) will catch it eventually. But viewing air as a lethal threat was starting to take its toll on my sanity. So after my fourth vaccine dose this spring, I made the uneasy but informed decision to stop wearing a mask.

COMMENTARY: Time for Rutgers to reconsider mask mandate

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“America is broken!” has become ubiquitous in American politics. The premise of the last two presidential campaigns relied on tapping into the feeling of a fractured American culture: Make America Great Again and Build Back Better both implied brokenness that needed fixing.  

ON THE FRONT LINES: Oslo Freedom Forum encourages us to reckon with difficult truths to protect, sustain democracy

If ever there was an activity that should make you want to turn around and never attempt to leave your house again, it must be finding off-street parking in New Brunswick. You have not known true frustration until you have spent more than 30 minutes circling around your house like a vulture looking for a parking spot. 

ON THE FRONT LINES: Parking nightmare commences at Rutgers

Have you ever truly looked at a comma before? Or deliberated for an hour on the exact capitalization of WALL-E? If you have not, then you probably are not a copy editor.

ON THE FRONT LINES: It is your copy editor's world, writers should try living in it

One day when I was in middle school my mom walked in on me counting pennies in order to be able to pay for my ticket to see One Direction. My mother was a reasonable woman, she offered to pay for my ticket to see my favorite band, but I was an unreasonable child and I insisted that I had to be as close to those five men as possible. 

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ZHIVOTOVSKI: Concert experience is ruined by outrageous ticket prices

ZHIVOTOVSKI: Concert experience is ruined by outrageous ticket prices

KOLI: Why Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar win is monumental

KOLI: Why Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar win is monumental

CRUZ: College students should not fear social rejection

CRUZ: College students should not fear social rejection

ZHIVOTOVSKI: Concert experience is ruined by outrageous ticket prices

KOLI: Why Michelle Yeoh’s Oscar win is monumental

CRUZ: College students should not fear social rejection

PARK: Have workplace glass ceilings really been broken?

EDITORIAL: Do award shows matter?

EDITORIAL: Normalize gap years for all types of reasons

EDITORIAL: Political leaders must keep their hands off free speech

EDITORIAL: How would potential AAUP-AFT strike affect students?

COMMENTARY: My mental health or Rutgers' liability?

COMMENTARY: Rutgers' priorities are all mixed up

COMMENTARY: Why we speak

COMMENTARY: Time for Rutgers to reconsider mask mandate

ON THE FRONT LINES: Oslo Freedom Forum encourages us to reckon with difficult truths to protect, sustain democracy

ON THE FRONT LINES: Parking nightmare commences at Rutgers

ON THE FRONT LINES: It is your copy editor's world, writers should try living in it

ON THE FRONT LINES: Still love One Direction? You are not alone