Review: Brockhampton returns for “Ginger”
Alex Rozar, Opinions Editor
September 26, 2019
Hip-hop boy band Brockhampton is back, but its reunion is bittersweet. Its newest release “Ginger” comes at a trying time for the group, which faced rapid commercial success with the “Saturation” trilogy, but has also had to come to grips recently with the removal of founding member Ameer Va...
Opinion: The case for a pass/fail grading system
Hayden Cottrell, News Editor
September 18, 2019
Letter grades. Those pesky A's, B's, C's, D's and F's can either make or break your whole year. At some point throughout high school, almost every teenager feels like they are defined by their grades. Having letter grades instead of having a pass or fail system is detrimental to students. Here are some reas...
Review: Close Talker stands their ground on “How Do We Stay Here?”
Morgan Vehige, Sports Editor
September 4, 2019
Sometimes I feel like finding new music is harder than ever these days. Music is everywhere, from Spotify’s release radar to an earbud being shoved into our ear by a friend with strange music taste. There are a million ways to find new music—and that’s just the problem. Why find new music when we ...
Opinion: Josh Hawley is waging a pointless war on your phone
Alex Rozar, Opinions Editor
August 27, 2019
America is in a tough place right now. In 2019 alone, there have been over 251 mass shootings—more than one for every day of the year. The UN estimates that there are only 11 years left to prevent “irreversible damage from climate change.” The U.S. spends much more on healthcare than any other de...
OPINION: Abortion should be safe and legal for everyone
May 21, 2019
Zoe Glantz is a freshman at Lafayette. She chose to submit this piece as a guest column for The Lancer Feed. Abortion is one of the most debated topics of all time. It took a decade-long fight to even reach the Supreme Court's ruling of decriminalizing abortion in Roe v. Wade in 1973. But now that co...
OPINION: Better Together’s merger proposal needed to fail
Melina Hudak, Staff Writer
May 14, 2019
Earlier this week, the organization Better Together pulled its proposition to merge St. Louis City and St. Louis County, telling the Post-Dispatch the group wishes to focus more on “structural change”. Initially, I covered the merger proposal for The Image’s April 18 issue. When I originally began writing my story, I didn’t know much abo...
TV SHOW REVIEW: Killing Eve sets new standards
Sophia Scheller, Staff Reporter
May 12, 2019
Sandra Oh left the hit TV show Grey's Anatomy in 2014. For the first time in her career, she had the power to choose her next job and negotiate a better deal; it paid off when she took one of the lead roles (as Eve Polistri) on the new show Killing Eve. Jodie Comer co-stars as Villanelle, the inte...
OPINION: Superheroes empower marginalized groups
Elizabeth Elliott, Staff Writer
May 9, 2019
Superheros, some of the most widely known figures in pop culture, began in comic books then into their later expansion to movies and TV shows; these characters have often been labeled as for children-but they are so much more than their brightly colored suits and various powers and weapons. These...
MOVIE MANIAC reviews Us
Jacob Ward, Staff Writer
May 8, 2019
Us is a new horror film that everyone has been talking about from the creative mind of Jordan Peele who is the oscar-winning director behind the film Get out. The film revolves around the character of Adelaide Wilson(played by Lupita Nyong’o) who experiences something traumatic as a little girl at a Santa Cruz...
MOVIE MANIAC reviews Greta
Jacob Ward, Staff Writer
May 8, 2019
Greta was directed by the oscar winning filmmaker behind The Crying Game Neil Jordan, and stars Chloё Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert. With supporting actors Maika Monroe and Colm Feore as well. A very naive women named Frances played by Moretz is on the subway one day and notices a purse, and...
MOVIE MANIAC reviews Pet Sematary (2019)
Jacob Ward, Staff Writer
May 8, 2019
Pet Sematary (2019) is another Stephen King novel being adapted to film in the past few years. We had the remake of It in 2017, and then there were smaller adaptations that Netflix started making like 1922 and Gerald’s Game, and now we have the remake of Pet Sematary. Starring Jason Clarke and John Lit...
MOVIE REVIEW: Shazam!
Makayla Archambeault, Assistant Web Editor
May 3, 2019
On April 5, 2019, the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) released a superhero movie that was very different when juxtaposed to previous superhero movies starring darker, more serious heroes like Batman, Aquaman and Wonder Woman. Shazam! features a superhero in the form of a 14-year-old foster kid named Billy Batson (Asher An...
