We cannot help asking the question: would Sage Smith still be missing if she were a white cis-gendered University student?
Because the mainstream left has failed to provide a coherent narrative of the crisis and a real alternative path forward, the confused and overwhelmed white working class is naturally drawn to the cohesive narratives propagated by figures like Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck.
In other words, the values driving many Democratic policy makers to favor a strong mitigative and adaptive response to climate threats clash with those of their Republican counterparts.
This discrepancy is at the heart of the friction between students and the University because we feel as the providers of the plurality of budget dollars, we have little say in how they are spent.
Many of us personally experience the impacts of economic hardship or identity-based discrimination, but we do not see, first hand, the consequences when another plastic water bottle is thrown into a landfill.
Humans have a rather complicated relationship with running: there’s the hellacious elementary school Presidential fitness test in which ten-year-olds are required to sprint back and forth across an un-airconditioned basketball court, slapping the out-of-bounds line as they scramble to beat an ever quickening, loud beep of elimination.
While all politicians intermittently wave the flag of family values, however, research has steadily shown that women who take maternity leave experience positive health benefits.
Our relationships within the University community are important, but it is also important that we immerse ourselves in the surrounding area.
The majority of people in a community do not commit acts of violence, but merely being non-violent is not enough to counteract all of the acts of violence — all the red dots.
The question then remains: Do Nepal and Tibet really have jurisdiction over determining the age at which people can climb Mt. Everest, a natural wonder of the world?
Even if one has kept a journal or a blog, it is a different level to work within a newspaper editorial structure and try to craft a column. The writers are finding and honing their voices.
The advantage to having students rather than administrators lead the initiative for greater safety is that students can more easily view their peers as models for how they should be living in this community.
Yet despite all these flaws, Model UN provides a worthwhile experience that forces delegates to adapt to uncomfortable situations which may conflict with their opinions.
Our current classification only makes us invisible to the rest of the population. It is not unreasonable for Arab Americans to seek a unique census category which better represents us.
There seems to be a view that international students are more likely to cheat than their American peers. However, this assumption is invalid and oversimplified, because these two groups are not examined under the same circumstances.
The problem, it seems, is that many veterans remain completely unaware of the resources available to them, and elite universities seem more like a pipe dream than an achievable goal.
The laws restricting food sharing reflect a common feature of American political culture: bias against the disadvantaged and the struggling.
I can never bring myself to do my laundry, which means there is always a soft pile of clothing for my tired friends to sleep on when they don’t want to walk back home at night.
When was the last time you achieved something that you’d previously thought beyond your reach? I’ll wait.
Even for rejected students who don’t pursue an economics major, those classes do not go to “waste."
