Welcome back from spring break, Pioneers, and happy March! New month, new opportunities! We hope you all had an amazing break and had a chance to take some well-deserved rest. It is hard to believe we have less than two months left of the semester. If you are graduating at the end of the semester, remember to soak in and enjoy these moments while truly making the best of this time left.

For this week’s Globe’s Point, we wanted to address an important topic. As a reminder, The Globe has a longstanding policy of not endorsing politicians, political parties and/or specific policies. As always, we are continuing to uphold that standard even in this specific column.

On Feb. 20, on his way to California, Joe Biden had this to say to reporters about Donald Trump: “‘Two of your former colleagues not at the same network personally told me if he wins, they will have to leave the country because he’s threatened to put them in jail,’ Biden told Katie Couric of Katie Couric Media. ‘He embraces political violence,’ Biden said of Trump. ‘No president since the Civil War has done that. Embrace it. Encourages it.’”

While we are not saying if this statement is true or not, it brings up an interesting and important discussion. As journalists, we are here to do a job and that is to report the facts. However, sometimes, that information is incomplete or communicated poorly due to indirect or direct intervention. We can be trapped by higher levels of power and are under a constant imbalance.  The politician can jail the reporter; the reporter cannot jail the politician.

It has become first nature to second guess whatever news you come into contact with. Yes, it is important to determine whether or not a source is credible and worth getting information from, but this narrative that all news is fake news and that reporters are always the problem is not a true problem. The saying that a few apples ruin the entire bushel is true, but journalists who peddle false information are not true journalists.

Today, you can be one of two journalists, one who plays the power game or one who does not realize a power game is being played. As we get closer and closer to this next election, we encourage you all, to truly do your research. Voting is so very important, and every vote truly does matter. Your voice matters, and it will not be heard otherwise.