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Lessons Learned: Everything changes and nothing remains still

When I was little, I had extremely strict rules and expectations for my future: be a computer engineer like my father, start a nonprofit...

Lessons Learned: Ask yourself, why not?

Every morning before middle school, my mom would say to me: “Be kind, be courageous and don’t mumble.” Much of my college experience has...

Lessons Learned: A love letter to shared spaces

I grew up an only child, and it is safe to say that I came to college with a fear of shared spaces — communal bathrooms,...

Lessons Learned: An obvious metaphor between the moon mission and college

There’s a scene in Samantha Harvey’s 2023 book "Orbital" in which an astronaut on the International Space Station tells his daughter that progress is beautiful....

Election 2012: Where is the Fervor?

Author: Benjamin DeLuca With each successive presidential election in this country, the road to election day becomes easier to predict and less exciting to follow. In...

What is government?

Author: Benjamin DeLuca What is government? Government, the means through which we pool our resources and our abilities to provide infrastructure and a binding social order for every...

Hope for return to normalcy

Author: Henry Dickmeyer Four days after Senator Barack Obama was elected to his first term as President of the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

Questioning LAPD’s ethics in hunt for Christopher Dorner

Author: Koby Deitz We have seen it before countless times in movies: one character seeks revenge by any means necessary. Time and time again, we have...

Gentrified York breeds inequality

Author: Damian Mendieta Just a few blocks away from campus, Highland Park has been the home of a large Latina/o working-class community for over 50 years....

Mythbusting clarifies anti-race policy

Author: Damian Mendieta A case currently before the Supreme Court, “Fischer v. University of Texas,” may bring landmark changes to America. Abigail Fischer sued the University...

Is Technology Relevant to Humanities?

Author: Arielle Laub I write this article from my computer. It is this computer which houses all of my work from the past four years, hundreds...

Unpaid Internships

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