Torch Editorial Board
March 20, 2013
In keeping with a somewhat odd Torch tradition, this is the last issue of the current editorial board.
This doesn’t mean that it’s the last issue of the year, just that this issue spells the end of Editorial Board XC, and...
Michael E. Cunniff, Editor-in-Chief
March 20, 2013
While the St. John’s community started to wrap its head around the constantly updating reports and allegations of questionable dealings of upper administrators, the University dropped another bombshell, announcing that the Manhattan...
Mairead Carr, Special to the Torch
October 3, 2012
The Democratic Party official platform believes in a woman’s right to have access to a safe and legal abortion. The Party also defends the Supreme Court’s decision for a woman’s right to have an abortion in Roe v. Wade....
Rebecca Brown, Contributing Writer
October 3, 2012
Every little girl wants to be a princess with the nicest jewels and the nicest clothes. I subscribed to British Vogue for a couple of years and had always seen the double-page adverts for all the big names in fashion. But the...
Gregory Mitchell, Special to the Torch
October 3, 2012
During the Republican National Convention every four years, the delegates of the party from each state vote on the party’s platform for the issues. This platform outlines the party’s stance on all the issues. These include...
Michael E. Cunniff, Editor-in-Chief
October 3, 2012
Question: Which party platform for an incumbent president brags about ending a seemingly endless war, signing treaties to limit nuclear weapons, cutting defense spending and raising taxes.
Barack Obama and the Democrats in...
Peter Barker, Contributing Writer
October 3, 2012
The sustainability organization I work at donated food to 131 families in need from its gardens in one month. It takes scraps like the inedible parts of pineapples and turns it into compost. It donated each weekday, for 6 weeks...
Torch Staff
October 3, 2012
Jack
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that very few people are trustworthy. And if there’s one other thing I’ve learned, it’s never to say never.
If those two axioms combine in the worst way, and I fin...
Torch Staff
October 3, 2012
Three weeks after the Student Government, Inc. budget for the 2012/13 school year was voted on and approved in a public floor meeting, the Torch is still waiting to see it.
We originally took the e-board at its word when President...
