Oliver Hicks, Author at The Phoenix

We Have Every Right to be Afraid of Climate Change. Let’s be Optimistic Instead.

I feel the familiar buzz in my pocket: one of many news notifications distracting me while I do homework. I pull out my phone to read it and roll my eyes. “New climate report says we are screwed” — or something like

April 28, 2022

Opinion

Kyle Rittenhouse did act in self-defense. That’s the problem.

On the afternoon of Aug. 25, 2020, seventeen-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse traveled from Antioch, IL to Kenosha, WI to help volunteers clean graffiti off of a high school near the Kenosha County Courthouse. The graffiti was left in the wake of citywide demonstrations

December 2, 2021

Opinion

Let NPPR Residents Use Their Own Balcony

A few recent Phoenix articles have commented on the lack of responsiveness from the College regarding COVID-19 policies and OneCard access for the college at large. While the coronavirus pandemic is clearly far from over, many have had difficulty connecting the dots

November 11, 2021

Opinion

We Are Experiencing a Public Health Crisis, and It’s Not Coronavirus.

There’s a virus afflicting our country that has claimed the lives of more Americans in the last 50 years than all of our wars combined. It is equivalent to having one year’s worth of a COVID-level pandemic nearly every decade, yet it

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Oliver Hicks

We Have Every Right to be Afraid of Climate Change. Let’s be Optimistic Instead.

Kyle Rittenhouse did act in self-defense. That’s the problem.

Let NPPR Residents Use Their Own Balcony

We Are Experiencing a Public Health Crisis, and It’s Not Coronavirus.

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