Rachel Gerhardt

Drake White-Bergey

OPINION

Digital footprints may change local, national politics as we know it

By Rachel Gerhardt | Apr. 23

More interestingly, digital footprints are increasingly prevalent in politics as Gen Z has started running for public office. This past year, old tweets containing offensive language from NYC Mayor Mamdani’s wife, Rama Duwaji, came to light, resulting in her public apology. Closer to home, a Daily Cardinal article addressed old messages from local politician Bobby Gronert, featuring his apology just hours before the polls opened, begging the question: how will internet culture and records change the game for Gen Z’s political future?

Betsy Fries

OPINION

Technological convenience is making it much harder to be a student.

By Rachel Gerhardt | Mar. 12

Campus wide technology and interfaces, meant to make students’ lives easier, have only strengthened the expectation that students (and professors) are always “logged on,” and can be communicated with at any point. The harm is not in the fact that students stay up late to turn in assignments, but in that the line between when students are expected to be productive and when they can relax is fading. The cost of the convenience of not having to turn in a paper homework assignment in class is the loss of separation between student’s academic and personal lives.

Eloise Guth

OPINION

How algorithmic music streaming killed music taste

By Rachel Gerhardt | Feb. 12

If we do not take our music listening habits out of the cold, dead hands of an automated algorithm — not to mention whose pockets the dirty hands of major music streaming platforms CEOs are sliding millions of dollars into — Mr. Music-Lover will be an archaic caricature of a passionate past lost to a passionless present.

Digital footprints may change local, national politics as we know it

Technological convenience is making it much harder to be a student.

How algorithmic music streaming killed music taste

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