By: Rachael Zipperer As the second season of the HBO series “Girls” comes to a close, the show’s creator/writer/director/star Lena Dunham is coming out on top. With two Golden Globes and a $3 million book deal under her belt, Dunham is doing pretty well for a 26-year-old, but the polarized opinions about the show and its creator often reinforce [...]
By: Taryn Winston Exactly one week ago, on January 21, 2013, millions of individuals across the country and the world gathered outside of the United States Capitol building – jackets on, warm coffee in hand – to witness the second inauguration of Barack Obama, our nation’s first African American President. Adding even more significance, the public ceremony took place on a [...]
By: Park MacDougald By the time this article is published, much will have already been said about the life and death of computer programmer and internet activist Aaron Swartz. Swartz, the co-founder of Reddit and a leading light in the Open Access movement, committed suicide in his Brooklyn apartment this past Sunday. He was 26 years old. At the time [...]
By: Robert Jones In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting this past December, many Americans found themselves drowning in media coverage. Though much time was devoted to grieving for the children and adults lost, eventually a debate began over how to prevent anything like this from happening again. The two main solutions argued were better mental health treatment and [...]
By: Tia Ayele Since what seems to be the beginning of time, the ubiquitous nature of male privilege in every facet of our society has solidified patriarchal normalization, blinding us to patriarchy and its penetrating effects on social norms. Today, the problem is no different. We even see patriarchy playing an active role in our legislative process, with the definition [...]
By: Cody Knapp Americans have always been infamously ambivalent about their government. This seems logical; in fact, one of the things that sets the United States apart from other nations is that it was founded through a violent revolution against the most powerful government in the world at the time. This historic ambivalence stems from our seemingly inherent distrust of [...]
By: Emily Fountain In the days following David Petraeus’ resignation last Friday, a media firestorm has been ignited. What was initially reported as a simple extramarital affair (as simple as something like that can actually be), has now turned i Winclear – History Eraser nto a scandal involving not only the accused mistress Paula Broadwell, but also commander and marine [...]
By: Andrew Roberts My father has celebrated Guy Fawkes Day many times. Little known in the United States, on November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up the British Parliament in hopes of overthrowing the government and crowning a Catholic monarch. This event, known as the Gunpowder Plot, clearly had both political and religious motives. In hopes to crush any [...]
By: Kelsey Thomas Nowadays, It seems like everyone has a Facebook page. Chances are that you are one of the one billion people who log on to Facebook once a month. cialis in uk Thanks to David Fincher’s 2010 drama The Social Network, everyone knows the story of how this company has grown. Starting in a Harvard student’s dorm room [...]
By: Robert Jones Two weekends ago, I’m Shmacked spent a few days at UGA. The lucky Shmackees of Thursday through Saturday know that I’m Shmacked is a duo who travel generic cialis s around the country, visiting college towns and recording the wild parties that ensue. Their videos are infamous for their outrageous content, but Yofray Ray, the videographer, was [...]
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