Today, technology companies such as Google and Facebook monitor every single action made on their services. Your emails, your photos, your Google searches, and the record of any websites you visit are stored somewhere inside these technology companies’ servers. Given the billion plus users these respective companies have on services, it may not seem…
With less than four months to go until the Iowa Caucuses, the presidential primaries are heating up. So far, the Republican Party has held two debates, and the Democratic Party held its first debate on Oct. 13. Debates are known to sway polls drastically, as they provide a platform for all the candidates to…
For defunding – Nikita Prokhorov In a series of videos produced and released by The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) various Planned Parenthood officials and affiliates are shown discussing legal loopholes, cover ups, and illegal partial-birth abortions. In the fifth video released by CMP on July 30, 2015 a doctor from a Planned Parenthood affiliate…
In a move that would effectively enforce mandatory vaccinations for all students attending public schools, two California State Senators recently introduced a bill aimed at eliminating the state’s “personal belief exemption” for vaccinations. Currently, California’s personal belief exemption allows parents to cite religious and philosophical beliefs in addition to medical necessity as reasons not…
If one more over sensualized hamburger advertisement is shown, I may never eat another burger. Seeing a relatively attractive woman in a bikini chowing down on a hamburger in slow motion cannot possibly be the best way to advertise fast food. Nonetheless, more and more of these ads crop up every day. Somehow, companies…
Humans come in a variety of sizes. Tall, short, skinny, wide, and everywhere in between. Yet, the majority of our female models are a very small subset of that population: at least 5’ 10” and a size two. This has become very damaging to society – not necessarily because people aspire to look like…
When we were little, all books, movies, and other forms of entertainment had their own “happily ever afters”. If high school English reading requirements have a purpose, it is to prove that this is completely false. Not all plots can end with the hero riding off into the sunset and the bad guys in…
When the United Blood Services came to campus to collect blood, students who identify as homosexual or bisexual were not allowed to donate because of Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) policies that state that no homosexual person can donate blood – policies that are based on an antiquated stigma surrounding gays and HIV/AIDs. These…
If you’re anything like me, the buildup to finals is matched in terribleness only by the crushing, empty feeling afterwards. You know, the limbo between Friday and whenever grades are due (even though you can’t see them on Zangle Q) when, without anything to study for, you are waiting anxiously to be informed about…
I am ineligible for virtually every scholarship I find online: I am white, I am not involved in student government, I have never been a resident of Nowheresville, Ohio, and I am not part of Ventura’s flyfishing club (yes, that’s a thing, and yes, they give out money for college). I’ve been told (incorrectly)…