Month: October 2020

By Isabella Strimling, contributing writer Photo by getarchd.com “Sex, like race, is a visible, immutable characteristic bearing no necessary relationship to ability. Sex, like race, has been made the basis for unjustified or at least unproved assumptions, concerning an individual’s potential to perform or to contribute to society… These distinctions have a common effect: They help keep woman in her place, a place inferior to that occupied by men in our society.”Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her first-ever Supreme ruling  From a young age, I was taught the importance of female imperium and to never let the weight of sexual discrimination stop me from pursuing my goals. However, it wasn’t until my junior year of high school when I was finally educated enough to be justif...

By Claire Jennings, Assistant Editor Photos from Google My fall semester of my senior year at McKendree was meant to be spent preparing for and taking the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE), but COVID-19 had derailed that plan as well as all the others I had made for my final year. At the beginning of the semester, I wasn’t sure how to proceed. Should I take the exam anyway? Would my program still require it? How could I take the test safely? The stress of applying to graduate school became heightened by my confusion and concern. After carefully scrutinizing application requirements for over 50 programs in my field, I realized every one I had come across amended their applications not to include GRE scores. While some of the more prestigious universities invited applicants to submit...