Weekender Editors

This week, The Daily Californian’s Weekender tackles questions of community.

As we approach the end of this semester, we here at The Weekender have turned our focus to “consumption” in our era. How has what we consume changed in quarantine? How in our late-capitalist society does consumption drive everything from media to politics? And how has the word itself evolved? 

Here we are again, folks. It’s that time of year when it gets dark at 6 but it’s sweltering during the day, everything is pumpkin-flavored and, you guessed it, The Weekender puts out its Halloween issue!

As the semester has started in earnest, this week we considered proximity in this new era.

With Earth Day just around the corner, we at the Weekender decided to assess our relationship with the natural world — how this relationship has evolved due to COVID-19 and how we can work to foster a healthy environment in a post-pandemic world. 

As college students, many of us have recently taken the leap into adulthood, leaving behind a mishmash of childhood innocence and parental support.

From the perspectives of sustainability, culture and family, social justice and innovation, food is more than just an everyday experience.

Publishing on Valentine’s Day, we at the Weekender found it appropriate to explore and celebrate this universally shared emotion of love.