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KELLY: Dear mom, take a break

While all politicians intermittently wave the flag of family values, however, research has steadily shown that women who take maternity leave experience positive health benefits.


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One dot at a time

The majority of people in a community do not commit acts of violence, but merely being non-violent is not enough to counteract all of the acts of violence — all the red dots.


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BROOM: Loving life

Even if one has kept a journal or a blog, it is a different level to work within a newspaper editorial structure and try to craft a column. The writers are finding and honing their voices.


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Home safe home

The advantage to having students rather than administrators lead the initiative for greater safety is that students can more easily view their peers as models for how they should be living in this community.


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KHAN: The virtue of Model UN

Yet despite all these flaws, Model UN provides a worthwhile experience that forces delegates to adapt to uncomfortable situations which may conflict with their opinions.


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ALJASSAR: A checkbox for Arabs

Our current classification only makes us invisible to the rest of the population. It is not unreasonable for Arab Americans to seek a unique census category which better represents us.


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WAN: Turn off the spotlight

There seems to be a view that international students are more likely to cheat than their American peers. However, this assumption is invalid and oversimplified, because these two groups are not examined under the same circumstances.


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Educating our heroes

The problem, it seems, is that many veterans remain completely unaware of the resources available to them, and elite universities seem more like a pipe dream than an achievable goal.


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HUMOR: On emotion

I can never bring myself to do my laundry, which means there is always a soft pile of clothing for my tired friends to sleep on when they don’t want to walk back home at night.


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An imperfect union

So it may seem as though disallowing fraternity parties would reduce the number of sexual assaults, but this approach only attacks the venues, rather than the roots of the problem.


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HORNE: The Spotify illusion

Since music has become digital, bringing us so many options for how to listen to music, the choice to purchase music rather than find it somewhere else online has become a much more meaningful decision by the customer.


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More helping hands

One possible role could be assisting in University-wide education efforts, both about the procedures of sexual misconduct cases at the University and what it means to abide by the 12 standards of conduct.


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KNAYSI: The intrinsic value of books

But for academic purposes, current e-readers, tablets and computer screens don’t have the same capabilities — to flip through pages, marking up a page for close reading, cross-referencing multiple works at the same time.


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Latest Podcast

The Organization of Young Filipino Americans is one of many cultural Contracted Independent Organizations at the University, and their mission is to create a supportive community for Filipino students. Danella Romera, the current president of OYFA and fourth-year College student, discusses the importance of OYFA as a cultural organization and how OYFA plans for this year’s Culturefest, an annual multicultural showcase. 

Listen to the episode here.