By Megan McGrath and Justice Nathaniel Thomas The Supreme Court has finally issued an opinion in the case Harrington v. Purdue Pharma. The verdict orders the Sackler family, former owners of Purdue Pharma — the company responsible for manufacturing and distributing the drug OxyContin — to pay $6 billion to...
By Megan McGrath After a string of failed initiatives to reduce food waste in dining halls on campus, Vanderbilt has devised an innovative solution: hiring celebrity competitive eater Joey Chestnut to perpetually reside at the end of the Rand conveyor belt and consume any and all leftovers. Vanderbilt is currently...
By Megan McGrath and Vivian Iburg Swine flu, the iconic disease once named for pigs like Vanderbilt Young Republicans, is undergoing a name change following a terrible outbreak at an innocent holiday party. On December 9, 2022, The Slant staff gathered at the residence of Chris Not-Kringle to share good...
By Megan McGrath Sarah Huckabee Sanders, newly elected governor of Arkansas and former president Donald Trump’s favorite White House official, took unprecedented steps in her first hours of governorship. On January 11th, Sanders signed an executive order banning the use of the term “Latinx” in state documents. Though it was...
By Megan McGrath We at The Slant are fans of the popular Reddit thread r/AITA (Am I the Asshole) because we get to pass judgment onto walking psychopaths with a worse sense of accountability than that guy in your Calc II class with seven Title IX violations—a favorite pastime. Today...
