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Thursday, November 21, 2024

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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...

Achieving a balance between two separate identities

The exclusion of immigrant parents from their children's lives creates a significant rift Growing up, my family friend, an older girl I had always looked...

Latinos are underrepresented in higher education

The role that race plays in learning I’m a first-generation college student, and this spring I will finally graduate from Davis. While it certainly hasn’t...

Coffee may be the game changer for reversing climate change skepticism

Climate change threatens global coffee supplies Americans disagree on a lot of things — politics, musical tastes, sports teams, appropriate places for tattoos. But we...

Grit: Jumping off the bandwagon

A questionable study setup should not be allowed to dictate character education Grit is education’s newest buzzword — and when discussing it a few weeks...

Yes Means Yes: How the understanding of rape culture in Hollywood is influencing our daily lives

We should not pin blame solely on powerful men but also on the society that made them. Content Warning: This story contains references to sexual...

Not looking like a “real” Mexican

How racial identity is based on cultural upbringing, not physical appearance What does it mean to be Latino? Are there certain requirements that need to...

There’s no such thing as going off the grid

And if there were such a thing, it’d be bad for the environment If you kayak up the Mokelumne River from Lodi Lake, you will...

Questioning the banality of Trump’s Russia investigation

Interesting stories are out there — but this process isn’t one of them If there’s one question that perfectly condensed the presidency of Donald Trump...

Grade-curving: The slippery slope of academic assessment

It’s self-defeating and disadvantageous — but we still count on it every time It’s midterms week and grade curving is at the forefront of many...