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(04/20/15 4:15am)
There’s a phenomenon called the Media Alienation Effect — you show the exact same news clip to people who belong to different political parties, and all of them say the clip is biased against their political views.
(02/12/15 5:20am)
The worst trauma I experienced was not when one of my ex-boyfriend’s fraternity brothers tried to rape me at a date function. The worst trauma I experienced was seven months later, when I had a trigger while having sex with my ex-boyfriend, and he left.
(11/25/13 4:55am)
I’m going to come right out and say it: I hate the holidays. I hate the Christmas music playing on the radio. I hate the shopping malls that reek of American consumerism. I hate the cheesy Christmas decorations on houses. I hate tacky sweater parties.
(09/16/13 2:38am)
He had his hands on my hips as he led me upstairs, a trek I had taken already half a dozen times. He locked the door to his room behind him as he closed the door. He kissed me — a kiss that was starting to feel familiar. And in the moment right before I expected him to reach for the top button on my shirt, he stopped abruptly and said,
(09/02/13 1:24am)
Newark Mayor Cory Booker recently coasted to a landslide victory in the New Jersey Senate democratic primary. Booker received about 60 percent of the vote, surpassing Frank Pallone, who nabbed 20 percent. Booker is expected to defeat Republican Steve Lonegan easily in the special senate election in October.
(08/22/13 2:36pm)
A few days ago, I said goodbye to my co-workers in the restaurant where I worked from May to August. Some of them I hugged and said “take care,” and some of them I looked right past, before I slipped quietly out the door. I returned home to a room littered with half-packed cardboard boxes, rolled-up posters, scattered shoes, piles mentally labeled “taking” and “not taking,” and some items floating in between. I took my phone out of my bag, opened Snapchat, took a picture of the room, captioned it “this is so sad,” hesitated, and then deleted it. Who would I send it to? The friends in Jersey who I was about to leave again? Or the friends down in Charlottesville I was about to return to? No recipient felt quite right.
(02/28/13 5:57am)
A recent article in USA Today discusses the propensity for college newspapers to switch to a predominantly digital medium of publication. Our own editor-in-chief Kaz Komolafe was quoted as saying that college readers are “seeing their news online through Twitter and Facebook so what we wanted to do was give them the news where they wanted to read it.”
(01/30/13 3:48am)
I REMEMBER, in elementary school, learning how to do a “lockdown drill.” I was told, along with my classmates, that when the principal’s voice came over the loudspeaker we would have to sit in the corner, away from the windows and the door. We were told to huddle as close as we could, but not to push or shove. We were told to be quiet — no talking, or you’ll have to stay inside for recess.
(10/17/12 3:42am)
A recent study at Washington University in St. Louis found that free birth control leads to a dramatic reduction in the frequency of teen pregnancies and abortions. One might think, upon first looking at the headlines, that this is common sense. But upon further examination into the details of this study, it becomes clear that this study is not just about the correlation between using birth control and the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies; it is about the benefit of health insurance coverage for women who are less advantaged, and its positive impact on their reproductive safety and freedom.
(10/04/12 4:24am)
Last Sunday on “60 Minutes,” Arnold Schwarzenegger gave an account of his performing gay marriages while he was governor of California. He told the interviewer that he married 2 couples in his office, an action that would seem to indicate Schwarzenegger is in favor of gay marriage. But when he was asked outright about his stance on the issue, he gave some ambiguous responses: “I always said that I have nothing against people doing what they want to do … I personally always said that marriage is between a man and a woman, but I would never enforce my will on people … If they want to get married, let them get married.”
(04/09/12 8:46am)
In high school, I had a choir teacher whom I was quite fond of and became close to since he shared an office with my mom. He was young, fresh out of college and had too many good ideas to count. He worked to expand the choir, get us more funding, teach us challenging music and establish traditions which would form a closer connection between alumni and current students. He even took us to Boston in the spring of my senior year, and was planning to take the choir to Baltimore or Virginia Beach the next year.
(03/13/12 5:39pm)
Coming from someone who has been on stage many times, I know how disappointing it is to see empty seats when the curtain opens, especially when so many long hours of practice have gone into preparing for the impending performance. Those vacant chairs are like hopes which ring hollow. Actors and musicians want to play for a full house, and having worked so hard they deserve the opportunity to do so. Unfortunately, the University's Arts Dollars program is hindering this prospect for some groups of performers.
(02/16/12 2:33am)
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(01/25/12 8:55am)
MY MOTHER, who teaches high school drama, recently faced a shocking accusation from a student of hers. As she was assigning monologues to her students for their exams, she gave to one student - the only male African-American in this particular class -
(01/19/12 6:18am)
WITH THE 2012 presidential race in full swing, candidates are laying down their platforms and making every effort to earn voters' support. Countless issues are being debated, but one in particular that keeps coming to the forefront is religion.
(11/28/11 5:32am)
MY FIRST thought when I was told to start considering where to live next year was "Wait,I just got here." I felt overwhelmed, and therefore withdrew from the idea of looking for an off-Grounds apartment, finding little comfort in the fact that the deadline to apply for on-Grounds housing is Dec. 1.
(11/15/11 5:00am)
WE HAVE all been there. You have your schedule for next semester perfectly planned out, and you are really excited about taking that extremely interesting class with that brilliant professor, but your course enrollment time is so late that all the spots are filled up by the time you log in to SIS. In the blink of an eye, your plan for the perfect schedule is shattered.
(11/07/11 7:32am)
I AM SURE some of you are sick of hearing about environmentalism. We have all been bombarded with evidence about how pollution leads to global warming and ecosystem destruction, and we have all been told that we need to do something about it. I do not think many people, though, are aware of the inherent discrimination that exists within the environmentalist movement.
(10/31/11 5:24am)
"MY BAD," "We should have went," "I did good," "The reason is because
(10/24/11 5:51am)
THE UNIVERSITY'S class of 2015 is 120 students larger than the preceding year's class. The reason for this change is not merely a desire of the University to live by the old adage "the more the merrier." The development is instead an effect of Gov. Bob McDonnell's demand for state institutions to offer more degrees, as the recent class enlargement was part of the University's goal to add 1,500 students by 2019.