• Your Addiction and Your Thinking: How Communities can Understand and Assist Alcoholics and Addicts

    By Illaria Dana, Education Major   In order for the alcoholic and the addict to stay sober, they must undergo a complete psychic change. A psychic change does not mean that a new center in the brain must be found, or that telepathy or some other intangible means of communication must be achieved. A psychic change… Read more

  • Working Hard, Keeping Cool

    By Illaria Dana, Education Major   I’ll never forget the night when I was seventeen, and two of my female friends, entirely whimsical creatures they seemed to me then, looked at each other and said, “Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope… Read more

  • Tech Talk – MindSumo: Make Money and Gain Experience

    By Hannah Martin   Want to make some pocket cash for the Holidays? Want to beef up your resume? The website for you is MindSumo! It’s a place where college students get money for proposing solutions to real-world problems. It’s the easiest way to make money ever! Most of the problems aren’t even that hard,… Read more

  • Big Corn, Bad Corn: How Our Nation’s Biggest Crop Industry is Bad For Our Environment

    Big Corn, Bad Corn: How Our Nation’s Biggest Crop Industry is Bad For Our Environment

    By Elizabeth Barrett   Ahh, corn. What food staple brings more fond childhood memories than corn on the cob during a summer cookout? Unfortunately, in the past few decades, corn has been turned into a genetically modified, environmentally damaging super crop, more of a system than a staple. While this industrialization of corn agriculture has… Read more

  • Is This Commercial Truly Controversial?

    By Eliza M. Hopkins, Education Major   It is the holiday season again this year, nearing the time when many of us will leave to gather with close friends and family. This time of the year, heart­warming, nostalgic and even tear­jerking commercials are played by companies to wish us a happy holiday season. However, some may… Read more

  • Letter to the Editor

    Dear Editor,             If any of your readers have been paying attention to the talks in Paris, they’ll see a lot of focus on things like oil used for home heating, energy efficient cars, and rainforest preservation. I wonder why there isn’t more talk about the COWS. In the Huffington post, I read that, “By… Read more