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Campuses around the nation are starting to protest and speak out against racism on college campuses. While some believe that these protests are unnecessary and distracting, there are those who believe that these protests are the…

We are bombarded with images shown to us by the advertising industry, an aver- age of over 3,000 ads per day. It's all too easy to say that we are unaffected and that we don't pay attention to advertisements, but only eight percent…

Armed drones are pilot- less aircrafts equipped with air-to-ground missiles. They can hover over their target for hours before striking suddenly. Pilots steer them and fire mis- siles using remote control, sit- ting in front of…

Photo Credit: US News After several years of uncertainty, President Obama struck down the Keystone XL cross-border project. After investigations regarding the necessity for this pipeline, given the uncertainty of growth in Canadian oil…

Men and women are biologically different creatures. We look different naked-that much I’ve known since Jack Howzit (name very slightly changed) stripped down on the soccer field in rec soccer because he was tired, and angry, and those two…

The date is September 23, 1973. In Santiago, Chile, the man who some call “the greatest poet of the 20th century,” Pablo Neruda, is dead in the hospital. According to the logs and reports from doctors, he died after a long-fought battle…

Photo Credit: Dove For the first few weeks of the semester, the Women’s Resource Center was shaved of its hedges. Granted, we were the recipients of a new, glorious porch, for which we are eternally and irrefutably grateful. But,…

This past Halloween weekend, I had an experience that allowed me to genuinely ponder the idea of reverse racism. A friend and I decided to dress up as characters from the 2004 movie White Chicks. We are both black males , and our outfits…