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,…
Opinion
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…
Shoo Petitioner, Don’t Bother Me
byIt’s that time of the year again when the weather’s nice and the days are warming up. All this sunshine means I can wear…
The Tentative Existence of Beauty
byFrom a scientific standpoint, beauty depends on symmetry of the face and proportionate physical features that subtly tell the rest of the world that…
China Made Me Gay
byWhen people ask me about my time studying abroad—what it was like, what I learned, how I fit all the puzzle pieces of my…