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.
Our organizations are often led by entirely new groups of people each year, and the result is that we end up with the same short-lived student initiatives year after year.
I believe student dismay about the project was not only because crossing the tracks is the logical choice, but also because crossing the tracks had become emotionally desirable.
Some acts are severe enough to conclude we do not want the student in our community anymore, but there should be a middle ground in which discipline is warranted, but so is a second chance.
The distinction between school spirit and degradation of peer institutions seems to have been blurred in our community.
As a consequence, rejected Comm School applicants funnel into majors that follow from the prerequisites, like Economics, regardless of whether or not that’s their interest.
Too often, Democrats put forth a proposal (raising the federal minimum wage, for instance), and Republicans oppose the proposal but fail to articulate a policy alternative.
The answer — find a job that makes you a better, more intuitive person, not a better employee. Statistics (somewhere) say that better people eventually get better jobs.
Nobody is going to be scared when little Bobby rolls up to the playground. Do your son a favor and name him something badass like Megatron or Captain America. Or Chad.
Whether it’s spiders, snakes, a cracked iPhone screen, missing a party (FOMO is so real y’all), a woman’s right to choose, racism, Ebola, or death we fear, we attack and repel these things with humor, for better or for worse.
Presumably, students who are expelled for sexual misconduct can just go on to attend other universities — no matter if they are athletes who get recruited to play for teams, or if they just apply and are accepted based on academic credentials.
It would seem that the competitive nature of our extracurricular atmosphere is not so conducive to the integrity of Honor’s image and procedure.
Much like with the similarly monolithic Beyoncé, it’s hard to read an article about Taylor Swift without running into an examination of her credentials as a feminist.
If these outlets received as much attention as the more popular outlets do, then the presence of biased reporting wouldn’t be such a problem.
I don’t trust others because I have separated them from myself with some arbitrary quality or distinction, and as a result, I lose the opportunity to make great friends and meet good people.
Hazing is not just characteristic of Greek culture; it is a consequence of group dynamics and peer pressure.
In recent years, students have been quite vocal about their general dissatisfaction with the current advising system, citing concerns such as the insufficiency of career advising resources and a lack of advisors who match student interests during the pre-major period.
The word “freak” used to describe the characters is not maliciously intended for the disabled, but instead meant to expose the “freaks” who pay to watch the show, enjoy the dehumanizing display and leave grinning and satisfied
Adjuncts should not have to live in fear that any outspoken criticism of their employers will result in their termination, especially when some improvements for adjuncts would also result in improvements for students.
In a sense, it would be dehumanizing to dedicate the building to all enslaved workers as a group, since this would remove us from their individual stories.
