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Home safe home

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.


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KHAN: The virtue of Model UN

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.


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ALJASSAR: A checkbox for Arabs

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.


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WAN: Turn off the spotlight

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.


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Educating our heroes

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.


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HUMOR: On emotion

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.


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An imperfect union

So it may seem as though disallowing fraternity parties would reduce the number of sexual assaults, but this approach only attacks the venues, rather than the roots of the problem.


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HORNE: The Spotify illusion

Since music has become digital, bringing us so many options for how to listen to music, the choice to purchase music rather than find it somewhere else online has become a much more meaningful decision by the customer.


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More helping hands

One possible role could be assisting in University-wide education efforts, both about the procedures of sexual misconduct cases at the University and what it means to abide by the 12 standards of conduct.


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KNAYSI: The intrinsic value of books

But for academic purposes, current e-readers, tablets and computer screens don’t have the same capabilities — to flip through pages, marking up a page for close reading, cross-referencing multiple works at the same time.


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Caught on camera

If students had been notified that class attendance would be recorded, such knowledge may have influenced their behavior, and the researchers would not have gotten a baseline idea of lecture attendance under normal circumstances.


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BERNSTEIN: Climate crisis

While the current legislature’s record is not laudable, we are about to move from a snail’s pace on addressing climate change to having no legislative fixes at all.


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As time goes by

The east side of Beta Bridge was painted white in the early hours of Thursday morning, covering the message that had remained there for over a month: Bring Hannah Home.

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The University’s Orientation and Transition programs are vital to supporting first year and transfer students throughout their entire transition to college. But much of their work goes into planning summer orientation sessions. Funlola Fagbohun, associate director of the first year experience, describes her experience working with OTP and how she strives to create a welcoming environment for first-years during orientation and beyond. Along with her role as associate director, summer Orientation leaders and OTP staff work continually to provide a safe and memorable experience for incoming students.