Struggle, Scenery and Solace
By Hareem Hassan and Mohammad Owais Sabri Red rectangular buildings interrupt the flow of the deep, verdant green ground supporting the might of solemn trees. A round face cupped in both hands peeks from the windows of one of the buildings, wondering, “Whose woods these are I think I know.” This is LUMS, empty, serene, and green, rendering us helpless and forcing us to re-evaluate our relationship with the greatest…
The Fault in our Sporadic Weather Patterns
By: Munema Zahid There isn’t much Pakistanis do better than prescribing natural remedies, so it came as no surprise when sage advice to inhale clove steam and apply olive oil floated around on social media in the first days of April. What was surprising, however, was the reason behind it: the sudden spell of dry weather entrancing Lahore, Islamabad and their adjacent cities. It seemed as though Mother Nature was…
Students and Faculty Views on Environment Courses
By: Aiza Nadeem and Salman Tuasene Khawaja In the first week of April, The Post conducted a questionnaire amongst the LUMS community to determine how aware the average LUMS student is in regards to the environmental policies of Pakistan. The questionnaire also measured the current importance felt about a possible environmental course. Questions were asked which pertained to the respondents interests and experiences with environmental courses, the environmental policies of…
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Choosing to Stay on Campus
By: Khadija Faruqui After the imposition of the new SOPs following a COVID outbreak on campus and the subsequent lockdown, many of the students residing on campus began checking out in droves. Although, there still remain a significant number of students on campus, most have returned to their homes as they found campus life under the new restrictions to be increasingly stressful and debilitating to their mental health. Since the…
Forming Community, In Conversation with Anime and Manga at LUMS
By Aiza Nadeem A viral tweet recently referenced, “you are faced with more peer pressure to watch anime than to do drugs,” and the popularity of anime today is a testament to that. The formation of an Anime and Manga society at LUMS seemed inevitable, yet it is the labor of a group of individuals devoted to the arts. The Executive Council (EC) members of the Anime and Manga at…
Erudite Vernacular and Arcane Tripe: Addressing the Inaccessibility of Academic Writing
By: Rida Arif Despite my intention to major in English, after my first two weeks of freshman year, I was convinced that I did not know how to read. Subjects I had studied for the past four years of my school life were suddenly cloaked in ambiguity as my professors assigned sixty-page supplementary journal articles, adorably termed “readings.” To my dismay, they were far from adorable–they were convoluted, dull, and…