OPINION: Cashing paychecks or passions? The cost of fear at CMC

Are you at McKinsey or Deloitte this year? How are you preparing for the technicals? Is that return offer coming? These probably weren’t the questions that you thought you would be asking yourself when you came to a liberal arts college. Lisa Gorelik CM ’25 warns against the pressure you might feel to throw away that theater minor and enroll in an econometrics class or the fear of breaking out of the tried and true pathways to replicate wealth.

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OPINION: We need more religious understanding

Last year, Elizaveta (Lisa) Gorelik CM ’25 was born again. This process of discovering faith has revealed the extent to which secularism and religious prejudice have seeped into the conversations we have at our institutions.

Gorelik argues that if our colleges want to uphold their mission of shaping responsible leaders, then our classes ought to bridge the gaps of understanding between the upper class, secular, liberal spaces of our campuses with the rest of the country.

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OPINION: Hating Country Music is Un-American

Tired of listening to pop? Lisa Gorelik CM ’25 puts on her cowboy boots to call for people to change their minds about country music. Tracing back country to its roots in Appalachia and breaking down common stereotypes, Gorelik explains why the genre is for everyone and how its landscape is more dynamic than most think.

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