Author: Carter Kolpitcke

Do we actually have Vandal Pride?
Our disconnected campus and unsure students perpetuate a lack of school patriotism.
Carter Kolpitcke

The Vandal Pride we desperately miss is more of a pipe dream than a distant reality. Our disconnected campus has never perpetuated pride to be a Vandal.   Like most of […]

Bite-sized news: ASUI Senate meeting
The Associated Students University of Idaho met for the second time this semester to discuss a Black Lives Matter survey, free menstrual products on campus and more
Carter Kolpitcke

Big-ticket items:  Black Lives Matter survey ASUI President Lauren Carlsen sent out a survey about BLM which received 271 responses, according to Director of Diversity Yasmine Tovar. Tovar is looking […]

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2021 will not be better than 2020
The symbolic completion of Earth’s revolution will not spark an uplift of progress
Carter Kolpitcke

The rhetoric pitted against 2020, though valid, reverberated so consistently that it convinced some of us that 2021 will somehow be better, it won’t.  It was only a year ago […]

Adult dependents snubbed from stimulus
Despite financial insecurity, many college students were excluded from both stimulus payments
Carter Kolpitcke

A second round of stimulus payments recently made their way to Americans, but some of the most financially vulnerable people were entirely left out.   Similar to the CARES Act, the […]

Off-campus housing help in the works for University of Idaho
Contracts in progress between UI and third party apartment search engine College Pads.
Carter Kolpitcke

College Pads, a program which connects students with off-campus housing and apartments, is coming to the University of Idaho soon.  This third-party company acts as an all-in-one platform for tenants to connect with prospective roommates and for landlords to […]

OPINION: Growing pains from spending holidays alone
Becoming an adult is not the most fun, but it's inevitable
Carter Kolpitcke

I reached a monumental milestone this past week: having to celebrate a holiday alone.

There comes a time in one’s life, which most likely occurs within the 20’s, of not returning home for the holidays. Unfortunately, due to COVID, this seems to be occurring for a lot of people right now. It’s a weird transitional period, it offers little to no lessons on life and can be dismantling to an established routine and the usual serotonin release. However, it’s absolutely pivotal.