Opinion: Christmas music is overdone
Will Ortner, Staff Reporter
November 30, 2018
Filed under Opinion
I may sound like the Grinch, but I don’t care: Christmas music sucks. It’s the same five songs by a bazillion different artists everyone listens to from the beginning of November until Dec. 26 if I’m lucky. All the altered versions of the songs sound the same, and they just get repeated non-...
Americans should push to be bilingual
Meghan Rochelle, Photographer
November 20, 2018
Filed under Opinion
As of 2016, Spanish is the the second-most used language in the United States. According to an article by CNN, approximately 38 million Hispanic people in the country speak Spanish, as well as an additional 2.6 million non-Hispanics. I am one of the few non-Hispanics who are semi-fluent in Spanish,...
The false dichotomy of the two-party system
Rune Torgersen, Copy Desk
November 20, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Railing against the two-party system is something I’m sure none of us are strangers to hearing at this point. The fact that two parties have risen to such dominance that they’ve become the only viable choices is a symptom of an underlying disease. The two-party model feels like a corruption ...
“Overlord” showcases the brutal horror of war and the supernatural
Ben Wheeler, Copy Desk
November 20, 2018
Filed under Opinion
“Overlord” drops us into the world of WWII on the day before the historic D-Day invasion of Normandy, France. We are introduced to the American protagonists, including Boyce (Jovan Adepo) and Ford (Wyatt Russell) on an aircraft that is part of a larger fleet advancing towards France. Here we learn t...
What about the arts? CAH facing tight budgets
Eric Rosane, For the Observer
November 15, 2018
Filed under Opinion
The year of 1926 was a particularly important and exciting year for both students and staff at what was then Washington State Normal School in Ellensburg. The institution saw record-breaking enrollment, the student body was fired up over their homecoming game against the University of Idaho (which they...
“Bohemian Rhapsody” flawed yet fun
CeAnna Heit, Copy Desk Staff
November 9, 2018
“Bohemian Rhapsody,” a biopic about the band Queen and the life of lead singer Freddie Mercury, premiered the weekend of Nov. 2 in Ellensburg. The film, directed at first by Bryan Singer and later on by Dexter Fletcher, was an engaging glimpse into Mercury’s (Rami Malek) complicated personal lif...
Opinion: CWU Football: to stay or leave the GNAC?
Wyatt Simmons, Staff Reporter
November 4, 2018
The CWU football team has been making a name for itself in NCAA Division II football since head coach Ian Shoemaker started four years ago. He’s led the Wildcats to a 30-13 record in his first four seasons, and currently the team is at 7-2 looking for their second GNAC title. But with the news earlie...
Opinion: Sonic Fans will have to wait to get a team
Bryce Weedman, Staff Reporter
November 1, 2018
The Seattle Supersonics, named after the Boeing Supersonic which never officially got off the ground, were first given the opportunity to be an official NBA franchise in 1967, which lasted till 2008. Seattle won its only NBA Championship in 1979. The Sonics played their last game in a very depressed K...
Opinion: Politics not actually the reason NFL is declining
Austin Lane, For the Observer
November 1, 2018
The professional sporting landscape in the U.S. has changed substantially in the past three years. The five major sports leagues in the U.S., the National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), National Hockey League (NHL), and Major League Soccer ...
Music albums are watered down
Cassandra Hays, Staff Reporter
November 1, 2018
If you have been keeping up with the music scene, you may have noticed that some artists are releasing albums that are over 20 tracks, and as long as a movie. Drake’s “Scorpion” (2018) was 25 songs long and clocked in at a lengthy hour and 30 minutes, while Migos’ “Culture II” was 24 tracks ...
Another Rant on Why You Should Vote
Rune Torgersen, Copy Desk Staff
October 31, 2018
Filed under Opinion
You’ve seen more internet sermons on the subject than anyone in the right mind could stomach. Your Facebook feed lights up with banner ads begging you to vote every two years around this time. Everyone and everything is screaming at you to go exercise your democratic right to a say in who decides t...
Opinion: What is a sack in today’s NFL?
Will Ortner, Staff Reporter
October 4, 2018
As we enter the fourth week of the NFL season, one thing is clear: the league has gone soft. It seems that every time a quarterback gets tackled, a flag gets thrown. Players and fans alike have voiced their displeasure as many of the plays that are being flagged for roughing the passer seem like regular fo...