This university is a haven, in many ways, from the turmoil that plagues the outside world, but that is not to say that the institutions that govern student life at this University are perfect, or even close to it.
The inventors have said their product “empower[s] women to protect themselves,” and though a woman may feel empowered by averting an attack, we still need to ask why she needs to avert one in the first place.
With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the simultaneous resistance against it, women’s reproductive rights have clashed with claims of the right to religious freedom.
It seems no one should call the bucket challenge activism or even “slacktivism.” It’s just creative social media fundraising.
With the influence of advertising already in effect, one can only imagine how much more impactful sponsored content would and can be.
Though Visitors are not elected officials, they still owe a duty to the public — to be open and honest about the issues the Board discusses.
Rather than being an isolated incident of poor policing or just a side-effect of giving cops ever more dangerous weapons, Michael Brown’s shooting can be traced to systemic changes in American life beginning half a century ago.
Having a more diverse faculty can “spread the wealth” in terms of academic opportunities. Currently, the majority of tenured professors at institutions of higher education are white males.
In light of the events of this summer, it is as good a time as any to underscore the serious responsibility that our generation bears in forging an eco-friendly path for the University’s future.
If a student is able to recognize their personal responsibility to say something to a new acquaintance in distress, the program’s advice may seem inapplicable.
Until there are programs in place that focus on risk and benefit analysis, there will always be another drug that pulls in young adults who could be swayed towards a dangerous behavior.
The law will likely lead to the alienation of women who wear the niqab from French society, rather than achieve its goal of integrating them into secular French society.
The only way to rid ourselves of the nightmare high-stakes kindergarten testing is to change the incentive structure at the very top.
Camera usage allows the possibility not only of protecting the accused from police brutality, but also of protecting police officers who are wrongly accused of brutalizing citizens.
If the choice is between asking large corporations to absorb a relatively small increase in wages or asking the federal government to go even further into debt by expanding social programs and attempting to support the large impoverished population, it seems the clear option is the former.
There are four main reasons for the failure of the American government to address climate change — the environmental issue most in need of immediate and aggressive action.
Pre-emptive trigger warning labels stand between texts and ourselves, encumbering our engagement with literature.
Puckett’s resignation will likely stall bipartisan progress in the state legislature
In short, Lewis’s and Montenegro’s methods have started a media blitz as well as a smear campaign against Laycock, not a dialogue.
By drawing attention to the names of specific men, these Columbia students have distracted the nation’s attention from the methods of sexual assault prevention and victim support that should matter.
