by Eric Garner | Apr 7, 2016 | Recent News
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...
by Eric Garner | Apr 7, 2016 | Recent News
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...
by Eric Garner | Apr 7, 2016 | Recent News
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,...
by Eric Garner | Apr 7, 2016 | Recent News
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...
by Eric Garner | Apr 6, 2016 | Recent News
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...
by Eric Garner | Apr 6, 2016 | Recent News
As accepting as we would like to think our world is, ignorance towards people with special needs is one of the most common and unnoticed forms of ignorance. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I have witnessed bullying of people with special needs through both...