Technology is life. I’m sure all college students can attest to the convenience of having the world at the palm of their hands. We can go from productive news browser to nosey Twitter addict by the twitch of our thumbs. More importantly, we can keep in touch with the ones we love, and in some cases, the...
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I’m sure we have all had that very one-sided conversation that began with “How are you doing?” and before you could even give an answer, you hear, “Me too, girl — blah blah blah.” So let me address this once and for all – If you simply want someone to be there to listen to you, then just cut to the chase and do not ask how we are doing. This is not being...
As the perception of the NCAA student-athlete has begun to change in the eyes of sports fans, the number of NCAA violations against them for accepting improper benefits has also changed over the last thirty years — skyrocketed, even. Televising college athletics has bolstered its popularity and, naturally, has yielded a higher degree of competitiveness amongst those...
As people who are the product of Western rhetoric and media, it is difficult for us to see the world through a non-Western lens. Russia has existed for the past 25 years as only a shadow of its former self, having lost its ideological empire and much of its ability to exert power abroad. This is an exit from the powerful stature that Russia has held since the late 1930s...
On Monday morning, TMZ released video footage of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice assaulting his former fiancée — now wife — in an elevator. The couple seemed to be having an argument in the video, and before the doors to the elevator can even close, Rice slaps her. Rice then knocks his wife unconscious with a single punch to the face, and proceeds to drag her...
Oxford has a problem with escalating prices, and nowhere is this more evident than the tax that has been levied on anyone who wants to access the Square, a space that should ostensibly be public but, with the addition of these parking meters, has essentially been reserved for those who can afford it. The city of Oxford added $1 an hour parking meters on the Square, thus...
