ROSENBLUM: Nashville’s newly elected mayor will benefit Vanderbilt students’ quality of life
Jack Rosenblum, Deputy Opinion Editor
September 15, 2019
While most Vandy students love to take advantage of everything the city of Nashville has to offer, few are aware of the politics involved in making this city run and how the city’s leaders directly affect our students. Working in the background, politicians can make large impacts on our experience...
STAFF EDITORIAL: Vanderbilt students deserve a forward-thinking, responsive leader out of our new Chancellor
September 9, 2019
Vanderbilt needs a new leader. Since April, when Chancellor Nicolas Zeppos announced that he would step down from his position, the university has been searching for a permanent replacement. The administration formally began this process just after Zeppos’s announcement, when the Board of Trust appointed a...
THORNTON: Is Vanderbilt the Harvard of the South or is Harvard the Vanderbilt of the North?
Miquéla Thornton, Opinion Editor
September 8, 2019
Harvard was the first school to initiate the worst nightmare of the modern-day high school junior: the SAT in 1934. These three simple letters that alone increase stress, anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, low self-esteem and even cause students to lose eyelashes due to stress, according to a study by...
THORNTON: Composting is not the only way Vanderbilt should combat food waste
Miquéla Thornton, Opinion Editor
September 1, 2019
Editor's Note: After publishing this article, the editorial staff learned that Campus Dining has plans to implement a program to allow students to donate their sides at any point during the year. The program, constructed in partnership with VSG, will be rolled out by the end of this week, Campus Din...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: I can’t wait to see The Hustler grow
Rachel Friedman, Editor in Chief
August 18, 2019
Dear Commodores, My name is Rachel Friedman, and I am the Editor in Chief of The Hustler this academic year. Being the editor of a school newspaper has been an aspiration of mine since I was 16. My chances of accomplishing this goal weren’t looking good when I was not selected to be the head of ...
BUSSMANN: Open Letter to Seniors
August 18, 2019
To my fellow seniors, First, let’s take a moment. How are we seniors already?! Three years at Vanderbilt have flown by, and all of a sudden we only have nine months left at Vanderbilt. Let’s talk about those nine months. They will inevitably go by faster than we think, or want them to. And while the...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: In response to Bauman, Never Again is now
Yonathan Reches
August 14, 2019
In a recent Hustler guest editorial, Mr. Jared Bauman asserted that the discourse surrounding the Never Again Action protest on Aug. 19 trivializes the pain of the Jewish people by equating two incomparable situations. As one of the protest’s leaders—and a descendent of victims and survivors of th...
Don’t Trivialize The Holocaust
Jared Bauman, Guest Writer
August 9, 2019
I’ve recently heard, through a combination of individual students, Instagram stories and GroupMe messages, that several Vanderbilt students are working alongside a group called Never Again Action to organize an anti-U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protest in a few weeks. On a normal ...
Here’s why keeping the scooters in Nashville is a good move
July 22, 2019
Nashville needs creative and reliable ways to integrate e-scooters into the city, and Metro's decision is helping us do that
STAFF EDITORIAL: Bill Lee is beginning to understand the wrongs of revering Confederate symbolism – he must continue his and Tennessee’s progress in understanding racial injustice
July 19, 2019
Governor Bill Lee is unsure about his participation in the reverence of racist symbolism in Tennessee. But he is walking in the right direction. On July 12, he signed a proclamation to designate July 13 as “Nathan Bedford Forrest Day.” Forrest was a lieutenant general for the Confederate Army during the Civil War and served as the first leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Lee signed a document which ca...
SCHULMAN: Mayor Briley is right – electric scooters need to be taken off our streets.
Max Schulman, Editorial Director
June 28, 2019
Nashville Mayor David Briley followed through on his ultimatum with electric scooter companies and set to begin the process of removing many of them from Nashville’s streets. In late May, he announced to the seven companies operating the 4,000 scooters within the Metro area that they had one month to propose changes to their operating regulations so as to comply with existing law and safety standar...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A deeper understanding of eating disorders at Vanderbilt
Emily Grinstead and Michelle Cole
April 26, 2019
On Jan. 13, The Hustler published an opinion piece about the intersection of Vanderbilt’s performance culture and disordered eating. We are two students passionate about eating disorder awareness and would like to correct what we found to be misinformation and misconceptions; we also hope to provide a deep...
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: In response to Bauman: Why IFCPH reformers get it wrong
August 6, 2020
GAO: How to not get kicked off campus early
August 5, 2020
Coronavirus is not an individual disease, it is a global pandemic, and the choices you make will affect everyone on campus.
Vanderbilt kicker Oren Milstein opts out of season amidst COVID-19 concerns
August 5, 2020
Milstein, a graduate transfer from Columbia University, is the first Vanderbilt student-athlete to opt-out of the fall season.
LIU: Want Diversity? Teach Our Histories!
August 4, 2020
In order to create an inclusive institution and battle systemic discrimination at the institutional level, Vanderbilt must support and expand programs and departments that study the minorities.
Southeastern Conference moves to conference-only football schedule, season to begin Sept. 26
July 30, 2020
The SEC announced on Thursday that it would move to a conference-only schedule in the fall, eliminating four nonconference football games from Vanderbilt’s schedule.
NGUYEN: Why would you waste money at an elite school like Vanderbilt?
July 29, 2020
Elite college degrees provide valuable socioeconomic capital, but as colleges prepare for remote learning, the generic online experience proves to be fruitless for some.