Feature Posts

It’s time for Syracuse University students to address our self-segregation problem

Obi Afriyie | March 10, 2018

Let me start by saying segregation is far from dead. It might not be politically enforced, but institutions have ways of naturally segregating people, and colleges fall into that category. From the moment students step

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Teaching Boys to Become Compassionate Men — On and Off the Athletic Field

James Newman | March 2, 2018

The hit in the corner was colossal. Boards and glass shook as the two ice hockey players peeled themselves away from the collision site. One player in a green-and-white jersey glided uneasily toward the bench.

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Hooking up ousts firm relationships

Rachel Selvin | February 24, 2018

Teenage relationships commonly consist of casual hookups or long-term couplings. To say this generation is inadequate in forming emotionally intimate relationships is probably the understatement of the century. Instead, we seem to be creating  non-relationship

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Toward a broader job search

Samantha Savello | February 17, 2018

As the spring semester begins, students are scrambling to secure summer internships and post-graduation positions. The pressure is especially high for seniors, who will soon be completing their final semester and walking through the Van

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Leave millennials alone about their piercings and tattoos

Sophie Allen | February 10, 2018

Over the summer, I interned at Long Beach City Hall. I had to apply for the position and was eventually interviewed. My interview went well: I brought my resume, dressed for the occasion and made

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Another kind of doctor

Casey Ramsey | February 2, 2018

From the time I was in elementary school to the summer before I came to Yale, if you had asked me what kind of career I was going to go into, I would have told

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Does the stress of high school ever end?

Cameron Austin | January 27, 2018

I have thought about the above question for as long as I have been at Kenyon, and even as a sophomore, I am still not sure if I can answer it. The preoccupation with getting

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Detriments of living in a college bubble

Jake Russian | January 19, 2018

For many students, college exists as a place to escape reality; an environment in which avoiding pressures associated with the outside world can be avoided. There’s fresh, hot food available at multiple dining halls, without

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A Teacher Opens Up About Becoming a Student in a MOOC

Alex Pearson | January 13, 2018

On the wall in the most inconspicuous and least traveled room in my house, two framed certificates from selective and expensive institutions of higher learning proclaim that I have completed a bachelor’s degree and a

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