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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




