Who's Inspired You?
“Das it!” my friend Christina Chaise would exclaim during casual moments of agreement with an energy fit for an impassioned student representative and rights activist. Our friend and mentor, Kevin Stump, would concur in a mellowed manner, illustrative of a civic organizer that’s cool as a cucumber. Christina and Kevin have their own style and […]
The ACA Makes Health Care Jobs Worth Studying For
Wondering what career path to take? One great direction is the medical field. Becoming a doctor is financially out of reach for most people, but other health care careers are lucrative and growing rapidly. Photo source: sheelamohanachandran According to the latest jobs report, while much of the recent jobs growth has occurred in low-wage industries, […]
5 Tips to Help Your Kids Learn a Second Language Fast
Being bilingual has its benefits in this ever-changing and advancing world. So if you know some basics or you’re fluent with another language, teaching this valuable skill to your kids as early as possible is a wise decision you can make as a parent today. Why? Being fluent in another language is an asset your […]
What It Looks Like When A University Truly Fixes How It Handles Sexual Assault
Brenda Tracy never dreamed she’d wear an Oregon State University T-shirt — not after what happened in 1998. In June of that year, Tracy, then 24 and living with her parents, reported to police that four men had gang-raped her at a party. Two of the accused assailants, she said, were OSU football players. What […]
Free Speech vs Shielding Students: A False Choice
The U.S. Supreme Court once praised the unique qualities of higher education by describing our classrooms as “peculiarly the marketplace of ideas.” Just last week at the University of Michigan, however, chalked anti-Islam messages in the center of our campus gave a different impression– that we are in danger of becoming a marketplace of labels, […]
Is It Possible To Pop The Grade Inflation Bubble?
Image Credit: By own work (http://www.paintingwithlight.xyz/architecture/) Grade inflation was back in the headlines last week when the long-overdue updates to a popular grade inflation database were finally released. We’re taught early on that grades typically fall along a bell-shaped curve where a few people do poorly, a few do very well and most fall somewhere […]
Why U.S. Healthcare System Needs More Foreign Medical Grads, As Told By A Millennial Med Student
Written by: Angela Mujukian As a Millennial who has just returned from a third world country and is adjusting back to Generation-Y and first world capitalistic and consumeristic society, it is difficult to see through a lens whereby all “physicians-to-be’s” are created equal and given the same chance. If we are all Americans living in […]
Tennessee Legislature Resurrects Discriminatory Transgender Bathroom Bill
Tennessee lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a bill that would require students to use school bathrooms that correspond to their gender at birth, after dropping consideration of the measure last month. The House education committee on Wednesday passed the bill 8 to 4, moving it to the finance committee for further consideration, according to the Tennessean. The […]
A Whimsical Look at Fallacies: Appeal to Authority — Part 4: The Limits of Reason
Dear Reader, prepare yourself for mental legerdemain. As you recall, Part 1 of our story tells of Everyman, conditioned from birth to believe the authorities and myths of his tribe, and forbidden, under any circumstances, to think for himself. Prompted by inner doubts and travel restrictions, he steals away in the night to discover the […]
From Beer to Books and Tequila to Technology
Before I was a librarian I was a bartender. Or a mixologist as we preferred to be called. Most people thought the job was pretty easy. How difficult can it be to pour a drink, right? They didn’t know that it wasn’t really about the drinks. It was about making people feel welcome, listening attentively […]