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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely . . . Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”  –Mark Twain

I sat with an American businessman in the home of a Palestinian [...]

Is canvassing a good job for students? Do you have what it takes to champion your cause?

Natalee Holloway, 19, was last seen leaving a nightclub with three men in Aruba when she disappeared in 2005. In April, 23 year old Aubrey Sacco went missing while hiking alone in Nepal. Traveling is dangerous, but that doesn’t mean young women should stay home – they just need to be careful. Beth Whitman, solo [...]

If you are looking for something to do this summer that could be fun and possibly win you a decent prize, you may want to consider singing a song about cancer for YouTube. Let me explain.
The “Up2 You” Video Challenge asks you to make your own video and rendition of Dave Stewart’s “Stand Up to Cancer” [...]

Does anyone else remember Gattaca? The freaky futuristic movie in which your entire fate (education, career, love life) is decided by your genetic makeup? That’s part of the reason some students and activists are very upset by UC Berkeley’s recent stunt: asking freshmen and incoming transfers to send in swabs of their saliva before fall [...]

Sitting through long-winded speeches for a couple of hours in the sun on hard chairs and benches is not exactly a form of celebration that anyone enjoys. Graduation ceremonies are a tradition that brings in crowds by the hundreds, yet no one ever has fun at them. There is excitement in the air for the [...]

How would you react if after class one of your friends said “this paper is really going to f— up my GPA”? You’d probably glance right over the profanity, right? At Hind Community College, one student was punished for saying the f-word outside of class because a professor overheard him.
Right off the bat, you’ve got [...]

With the ending of the spring semester comes graduation and relaxation… but not until after students are finished dealing with applications to prospective colleges. Yes, your letters have already been sent off and you have probably already received your responses, but in case some of you are wondering why acceptance has been so difficult, there [...]

School uniforms may seem boring, but they definitely save on clothing, and sometimes spark the creativity of kids who accessorize to look different every day. Students in the United States might complain about their uniforms, but some kids halfway around the world would wear love to wear them, accessorized or not, because it means they can [...]

Helping teachers in and out of the classroom while applying themselves to their own studies is hard work; so, why aren’t graduate students given the right to unionize? Is it because they do not earn much money for their work? Frankly, being able to unionize seems like it would at least be a bit of compensation to earn for working for little pay. Take away the title “grad student” and the job is similar to that of an instructional assistant.