If you’re a female writer, don’t read the comments. We’ve both been opinions columnists for the majority of our college careers. Maggie currently counts herself as one of three female editors, leading a roster of columnists that is 42 percent female. Women are a strong presence in The Herald: ...
I’m a senior and I already regret everything I ever studied at college. “A history major, eh,” says my uncle. We’re at a family event over winter break, and I’m getting quizzed on my future. “Sounds like a recipe for law school to me.” I gulp and start to chew on a loose strand of my ...
Nudity in the Upspace — a week that attempts to “explore nudity in all its forms” — has received intense media scrutiny in the past week. Media outlets such as CBS, the Huffington Post, theBlaze and the notorious Jesse Watters, the “O’Reilly Factor” correspondent who infiltrated the Sex ...
For years, Teach For America has been criticized as a vanity project of the elite: a highly selective two-year foray into teaching the underprivileged for Ivy League graduates right before they enter corporate lives of investment banking, lawyerdom or suburban parenthood. But the results are in: Teach ...
Two weeks ago, I was accused of being a feminist. I received the insult in response to a column I had written (“Don’t rape,” Feb. 25) in which I argued that our college campuses—and culture in general— needed to send a clearer message about sexual consent. I also contended that rape is, in ...
“They peed on her. That’s how you know she’s dead, because someone pissed on her… They raped her quicker than Mike Tyson raped that one girl. They raped her more than the Duke lacrosse team… It isn’t really rape because you don’t know if she wanted to or not.” These are perhaps the ...
I was thrilled a couple of weeks ago to see that the most read article in The Herald was entitled "Why therapy is cool." At last, I thought, somebody agrees with me!
When I walk outside the Rockefeller Library or my dorm room, I feel vaguely like I've stepped into a 1960s bar on an episode of "Mad Men."
Assistant Professor Adrienne Pine '94 had a problem. The American University professor woke up the morning of Aug. 28 ready to teach her class, "Sex, Gender and Culture" - only to discover her infant daughter had a fever. Pine felt she had no viable childcare options as a single parent. So she brought ...
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