Close your eyes, all of you. We’re going to do a little exercise, okay? Imagine yourself holding a knife. A stainless steel kitchen knife. Now, what I want you to do is repeatedly stab yourself with it. And maybe you could stab it in a pattern where it looks like you’re spelling “ugly.” Phew. I know that must hurt. Now, I want you to imagine another person coming...
As I was leisurely scrolling down my Facebook timeline recently, I came across an article from CNN recounting an Instagram post from NFL linebacker James Harrison. In his paragraph-long rant, he commented on the participation awards his sons received from their pee-wee sports team. He stated that no one is “entitled to something just because they tried their best…cause...
It’s the most annoying time of the year. That’s right, it’s campaign season. All of a sudden, people you haven’t heard from since freshman year are sending you texts asking you to vote for people you’ve never heard of in your life. There are puppies on the Union plaza and peppy little faces shoving stickers down your throat. As an underclassman, I was never...
As mass shootings have increased over the past several years, the media has been quick to jump on the mental illness bandwagon. Mental illness care has never been what it ought to be in this country, and, while I appreciate increased attention on the issue, mental illness can’t be blamed for every single mass shooter. It would be easy to say that each shooter is mentally...
There’s a popular saying in education: “Everyone is an expert in teaching because everyone has been a student.” This is a true phenomenon. Many people think they know the right way to teach their child, the right way to teach themselves, the right way to write a test: “My child doesn’t learn that way. You have to…,” “I can’t do an oral test, give me…,”...
If Iran’s current efforts to enrich uranium are indeed in pursuit of manufacturing nuclear weapons, as the U.S. government fears, then such a pursuit may be an entirely rational decision on their part. If they are able to do so without brutal sanctions being levied against their civilian population? All the better, from their perspective. First, Iran has dealt with the...
