A Student Sails the Seas
byAs a student, I have spent day after day trying to pave my path in the world, trying to discern my deep passions from…
Opinion
Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera and the fight for equality in Uganda
Still Fighting For Stonewall: An ongoing look at LGBTQ activism around the world
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Hours before sunrise on the morning of June 28th, 1969, members of the LGBTQ community fought back against a police raid at a New…
Examining Kavanaugh’s Record
His past rulings could predict our nation’s future
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Now that Justice Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed to the Supreme Court, it is helpful to turn to his judicial record while serving on…
Is It Really Just a Fantasy?: Why We Need to Start Thinking Critically about Porn
byOver the past decades, pornography has transformed from a clandestine, niche industry to a booming online market that, according to sociologist Dr. Gail Dines,…
The Octopus Returns
Why Disney is becoming too big for its (and our) own good
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By the time John D. Rockefeller’s company Standard Oil was sued by the U.S. government in 1911 for being an “unreasonable monopoly,” the company…
Piracy never looked so good
It’s not immoral if it’s for the right reasons
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As an avid movie buff, this whole #MeToo movement has ruined movies entirely for me. That’s why I say it’s time that the movement…
Happy Camp
Echoes of a logging town in the environmental fight
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One week was all we had to drive from Texas to Oregon. Everything was on a schedule, from stops and our stays to our…
The unpaid professionals in American colleges
Why student athletes should get paid.
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Should student athletes receive compensation for participating in sports? We don’t pay students for being in school plays, nor do we pay college choirs…
Don’t shoot the messenger
The bad rap that mass media doesn't deserve
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Are we doomed? Friends and families in casual conversation point to news and say, “Well, just look at how often you hear about another…
Boy’s Club
The United States' obsession with institutionalizing toxic masculinity
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Few things are considered more “American” than football and the military. But what does the classic American pastime bear in common with the armed…