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Thursday, March 28, 2024

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“Black Panther”: The importance of diverse perspectives in movies

Marvel’s newest installation sends a much-needed empowering message After most late-night movie theater excursions, I return home exhausted and only slightly emotionally piqued. However, walking...

The Spanish Dilemma: Does being Hispanic require knowing Spanish?

How living in the U.S. affects Latinos’ Spanish proficiency As a Mexican-American, I’ve had to traverse a weird limbo of being proud of my heritage...

The problem with eco-friendly trends

Environmental fads are only good while they last You might have seen what appears to be overly enthusiastic clean-up crews — individuals running with hefty...

Russia and America, naked

A relationship that requires a deeper cultural view It’s a common thread in travel writing: how we can learn about American society by immersing ourselves...

Women aren’t asking for approval for their place in tech

It’s 2018, and this is still the hill men want to die on James Damore, a former Google employee, published a scathing memo in July...

The Patriarchal Arena: The competition between women that destroys the feminist movement from within

We need an environment where women are not pitted against each other “Mean Girls” was the movie that defined my adolescence. Every girl wanted to...

The ordeal of speaking out in class

Being seen as a bigot or worse in the classroom Why are students afraid to voice their opinions in the classroom? Political correctness has made...

Reporting from Russia with love

Nothing can prepare for culture-shock, and that’s okay There are those who get nervous, and there are those who say they don’t get nervous. The...

Gender is a spectrum: How the toxicity of rigid stereotypes inhibits gender self-expression

Femininity and masculinity should be variable for each individual instead of contribute to fixed stereotypes “I hate Black Widow. She’s a girl, and girls have...

Spirituality and environmentalism in America

Environmentalist and believer don’t have to be mutually exclusive — and they shouldn’t be Nature has a profound spiritual significance to me. I’m overwhelmed with...

You don’t need to be a “humanities person” to study the humanities

The liberal arts teach life skills that science just can’t Since the advent of modern science, students who have an inclination toward the discipline have...

Coyotes: A dangerous but necessary evil

How human smugglers operate as portal for migrants coming to the U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that illegal immigrants will face more challenges...

Sexual violence and the culture of manliness: Social reckoning aside, male emotional repression should be reexamined

Cultural norms of behavior reveal more problems than they fix In the movie “I Love You, Man,” Paul Rudd plays a newly engaged real estate...

Nature versus technology

Is our technology keeping us from really experiencing nature? One day, while studying in the arboretum, I saw a couple of otters. They were swimming...

Education in Trump’s America

You can’t be anti-education — or so I thought Stomachs all over the country drop when President Donald Trump makes headlines. Personality notwithstanding, his policy...