Theme House Corner: The Arts Annex.
If you’ve ever walked past the little brick house on Romoda Drive during a warm autumn day, you might have heard the sounds of guitar, ukulele, singing, or music floating on the breeze. If you looked over, you would have seen an eclectic…
Austria’s Kurz Becomes Youngest World Leader.
Austria recently held their national election on October 15th, with Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz coming out victorious. Kurz will become the world’s youngest national leader at the age of 31. The new Austrian chancellor has been compared…
Make a Difference in the Local Canton Community this Weekend.
Occurring this Saturday, October 21, Make a Difference Day is fast approaching. For those that don’t know, Make a Difference Day is a day for SLU students to go out into the Canton community and donate their time to service projects. These…
People Should Know By Now.
Today, I am angry. I am angry as I watch another “me too” scrawl across my Facebook newsfeed. I am angry as I watch friends, family, acquaintances rehash their traumas in an effort to bring awareness to an all too pervasive issue. I am…
Attack The Gender Wage Gap By Dispelling the Myths.
The statistic that women earn $0.80 to every dollar a man earns is the most repeated number of the feminist movement. It makes for great quick quips on any blog rant about inequality, or for a local coffee shop that goes viral with an…
The Excelsior Scholarship: To Impotence and Beyond.
When the ever-affable-governor, Andrew Cuomo, announced that New York State (NYS) was rolling out a bill designed to make tuition free for all college students, my mind raced with visions of brave families packing their bags and sending…
Dear Dub: Me Too But Now What?
Yeah, me too. And her too. And my mother and grandmothers too. And my best friend too. And the girl who sits next to me in class too. And one in three women worldwide too. And you too? You’re not alone.
The deluge of “me too” on social…
Catalonia Declares Independence from Spain.
This past Sunday, Catalonia, one of Spain’s 17 autonomous communities, convened a vote for a referendum to determine whether the region would continue to remain a part of the country.
Before the vote took place on Sunday, Spain’s central…