Let’s start with the most important thing. Lives are being lost. Humans are suffering.

Kristin Kumagawa, a graduate student in the School of Communication, passed away on March 2 after a medical emergency. Her death comes after the loss of another School of Communication student, Tyler Scheetz, a sophomore communication studies major from Palo Alto who died in a car accident on Jan. 8.

Chapman students and faculty grieve over the recent deaths of Peng Wang, Griffin Cuomo and Jonathan Bahm.

Chapman’s April 1 commitment to divest from fossil fuels is accompanied by doubts, given the university’s history of financial support for groups like Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP — a law firm that frequently represents gas and oil companies in lawsuits against Indigenous communities.

Introversion, lack of enthusiasm, feelings of passivity and declined motivation are just a few of the symptoms of apathy we’ve noticed in Chapman’s student body following the return to campus post-pandemic.

With a population of just 44 million — compared to Russia’s 144 million — Ukraine has been punching well above its weight to stave off a military eight times the size of their own.

When it comes to this year’s Orange County District Attorney election, we’re urging students to “swipe left” on current DA Todd Spitzer.

In honor of Black History Month, we’d like to cater our space this week to promoting creators from the Black community who inspire us to do the hard work we preach.

The Panther has seen quite a few changes over the last couple of semesters. Leave it to the pandemic — but we’re not complaining. Like many enterprises, we’ve adapted and evolved.

A struggle to keep masks on properly in class remains an ongoing issue.

Though John Eastman retired from Chapman Jan. 14, his name and unflattering legacy continues to be ingrained in the fabric of the university.

Physically expressing one’s negative feelings can be of great benefit where words fail, as our editorial board came to find out through a kickboxing class at a local Ultimate Fighting Championship gym.

Amid a pandemic that has forced us to mature at an expedited rate, it is of increasing importance that we do not lose sight of the passions, the fears, the desires and the optimism that characterized our younger years.

California Governor Gavin Newsom faces off against 46 opponents in the state’s 2021 gubernatorial recall election, where turnout will be determined by popular vote.

Despite the excitement of returning to the traditional college experience, the fear of contracting COVID-19 and transmitting the virus to others remains ever-present.

This year has been crazy. And what’s crazier is being tasked with reporting on the crazy.

Now that much of our lives have been brought to our homes, we now have this constant urge to keep working all the time simply because we can.

We’re ready to come back to in-person. We just hope the rest of the Chapman community is too.

“Guilty on all counts” is the phrase we’ve been waiting almost an entire year to hear.

It seems as if The Hesperian is blackmailing veteran academics at Chapman into heeding their request to investigate professor Liam O’Mara.