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(12/10/17 3:16am)
In between catchy songs and talking animals, children are drawn to rags-to-riches stories like Aladdin and Cinderella. From professional athletes to CEOs to The Little Engine That Could, we learn that the “American Dream” is possible for anyone who works diligently enough. However, the real likelihood of upward mobility is overestimated in America.
(11/27/17 2:14am)
If you are left-handed, you were probably put on a guilt trip for bumping elbows during Thanksgiving dinner as your family joked about how you are “never right.” Society has indeed come a long way from accusing left-handers of witchcraft and using “sinister” interchangeably with left, but most environments still fail to acknowledge the needs of left-handed people, and this university is no exception. Inadequate numbers of left-handed desks result in health issues and the failure to complete essays in the allotted timeframe.
(11/12/17 3:00am)
“Last but not least” sounds like a cute phrase until it precedes your lonely name on the back of everyone’s alphabetized senior recognition t-shirts. Having a last name at the end of the alphabet is a struggle unknown to many, and it is time to reverse the order of names on group projects to end the plight of the W through Z.
(11/03/17 9:52pm)
I have heard the same joke repeated all over the world: “Someone who knows three languages is multilingual, someone who knows two languages is bilingual and someone who knows one language is American.” Only 18% of Americans can speak a foreign language, compared to over half of Europeans. Foreign language education is vital to succeeding in a globalizing world, but the American education system fails to prioritize foreign language learning.
(09/24/17 11:19pm)
If an impending hurricane was predicted to have a six meter storm surge, 180 kilometer-per-hour winds and bring 176 centimeters of rain, Americans would miss the evacuation trying to remember the metric conversions they learned in third grade.
(09/17/17 11:16pm)
The extent of Hurricane Irma’s damage was still not fully known before several sites were already running to collect donations.
(09/03/17 10:51pm)
A growing number of individuals are unaware of their government’s whereabouts, oblivious to the problems within their country and do not know the first thing about foreign affairs. Believe it or not, I am not referring to an authoritarian regime. A large number of young Americans are refusing to read the news, and it comes at a cost.
(08/08/17 11:59pm)
I have looked myself over and have repeatedly failed to find a manufacturing label that reads “made in the USA.”
(11/10/16 12:46am)
You are in a parking lot when a stranger silently taunts you by waving their gun in the air. You are on the sidewalk when someone threatens you through their car window. You are on campus when a group of students surround you, shouting that you are not one of them. You approach your car to find that someone has keyed “ISIS” into its door. You, like everyone else, are a student trying to fit in and find your place in the world — but to them, you are only a Muslim.
(09/26/16 12:44am)
Sept. 17 was the first game under the new Sorority Council restrictions on fraternity tailgates. Though changes were made, ranging from requiring guest lists to banning hard liquor entirely, hospitalization was still a problem. Out of the several hospitals in Columbia, my friend, who had fainted from dehydration, said that there were at least seven students at the one she was at, and that was only 10 minutes after the start of the game.
(09/11/16 10:48pm)
Almost everyone loves cruise ships, so what could be bad about using one to travel the world for four months? Absolutely everything.
(08/29/16 1:38am)
If in any other context someone were to be invited to a filthy room stuffed with incoherent people tripping over each other and screaming along to the elementary words of a sacrilegious rapper, it would provoke a hard "no." The media, with the aid of the peer pressure to recap the “crazy” stories from the night before, has promoted college partying to be both reckless and glamorous. As new freshmen find their way around campus and into the party scene, it is important to understand that college parties never live up to their expectation, and it is okay to say no.
(04/24/16 5:13am)
The end of spring means the start of friends’ Instagram posts from overseas and the start of the jealousy that we aren’t also tanning on a Barcelona shore or exploring downtown London. But have you ever wondered why the rest of the world is rarely represented? Europe only makes up a small portion of Earth’s landmass, yet hosts over 53 percent of American students studying abroad. Europe has a lot to offer, but if you have no personal or linguistic reason to go to Europe, it may be in your best interest to step out of your comfort zone and visit a country less traveled.
(04/06/16 11:35pm)
If sipping a sangria in the remains of a former concentration camp is a dream of yours, it’s about to come true. The Montenegrin government has approved plans for an island that once imprisoned Holocaust victims to be transformed into a resort, and the locals are outraged.
(03/14/16 3:07am)
Many have heard the phrase “nothing in life is free,” yet seem to forget it when it comes to college costs. As increasing college debt cripples students, many of us are quick to support a cause that will inevitably hurt us. Free college sounds great, but the cost will likely be placed on those who should be benefitting.