Hollywood Whitewashing Needs to Stop
By: Claire Kim
While Chris Rock’s Oscars opening monologue was praised by many for calling out the diversity problem that would be featured in the...
Standardized Tests Need to Change
By: East Side Staff
Just last month children in New York State from grade four through eight finished taking their New York State Math and...
Olympic Bingo?
By: Claire Kim
There is currently a petition for bingo to become an Olympic sport for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. No, not an April Fool’s...
Olympic Tickets Still Unsold
By: Harman Kaur
There are less than four months before the start of the summer olympics in Brazil, but less than half of the tickets...
Virginia Grants Convicts Suffrage
By: Nicole Kazmierczak
In many US states, felons convicted of serious crimes often have very restricted voting rights following their release from prison. In states...
The Truth Behind the Death Penalty
By: Rebecca Jordan
Jimmy Lee Gray of Mississippi died banging his head against a steel pole in the gas chamber where he was ordered to...
Nora Pillow Provides Snoring Relief
By: Gillian Marcus
We’ve all been there; we all know that one person who snores so loudly that they often wake you up from your...
German Train Crash Kills 10
By: Sherrie Chen
On Tuesday, February 11th,  two trains in Germany's southern state of Bavaria collided shortly before 7:00 AM local time.
Police said that 10...
Zika Detected in China
By: Sherrie Chen
China confirmed an imported case of Zika virus on Tuesday, February, announced by the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC).
The patient...
#Bellletstalk Sweeps Globe
By: Carly Recoon
On January 27th Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and text messages lit up with the hashtag of #BellLetsTalk. The purpose of this message was...