Opinion

OPINION: This is for all the sad voters By Marissa ContrerasManaging EditorPublished Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024 Nov. 5, 2024, was a stressful night. Being in The Bridge office, looking at the red and blue United States, I waited for Pennsylvania to turn blue. It never happened. By morning, our new president was called, and it was who I expected but not who I wanted. Marissa Contreras The reason I wanted a female president was because I knew everyone’s basic human rights were going to be protected. I knew I would be a secure woman living in America. As an American, I knew my privilege with this election was higher than others. But as a person with empathy, I knew no amount of tears and love could help my friends whose lives after this election will not have the same outcome as...

OPINION: Goodbye TAMIU, it’s been nice By Juan Carlos PuenteEditor-in-chiefPublished Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024 This will be my last opinion piece for The Bridge since I am graduating in December. At first, I had been putting this article off because I felt like I had nothing to say. I’m graduating, why does it matter? Now that I am writing, I can’t help but feel a tightness in my chest. Juan Carlos Puente The Bridge has been my home away from home for the past three semesters and I’m left with the regret that I didn’t join sooner. Coming into college, I was in a bad headspace riding off a breakup and a parental divorce. I felt that nothing else mattered, not even my classes. I didn’t even know what I wanted to do afterward, the original plan was graphic design at University ...

OPINION: Brat summer prompts voter dissonance By Ana VaraAssistant EditorPublished Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024 As the Troye Sivan- and Charlotte “Charli xcx” Aitchison-led Sweat Tour comes to an end and the brat remix album continues to top the charts, we have only just left the peak of brat summer—a phenomenon I can’t quite fathom to have grown quite as big as it has. I should understand this. My second-ever college class taught us that the last sequence of the existence of social movements in contemporary American society is integration, a folding into the mainstream culture. My mind won’t budge. Ana Varaassistant editor Though I can see it. There we are, the American populace, barrelling down from the brat green hill that we decided to stake our Jonathan “Lil Jon” Smith-endor...

OPINION: In Satan can we trust? By Dora GuerreroAssistant EditorPublished Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 Sometimes it’s so much easier to fear the things you don’t understand; sometimes people demonize them so they don’t have to look at them for too long. As children, they tell us to not misbehave or “el cucuy” is going to take us; the cucuy represents some evil that is out of this world, which goes against everything we have been taught. This ungodly presence steals misbehaving children and takes them away, but are all “ungodly” things really that bad? Dora GuerreroAssistant Editor The Satanic Panic from the 1990s created a false vision of the “occult” focused on a great conspiracy of Satanic cults that abduct children for human sacrifices. What many people failed to realize is that t...