I didn’t want to admit it for a long time. In fact, it wasn’t until I saw her that I was sure I was bisexual. I was even surer in the months following, as our relationship blossomed, and I fell in love for the first time. We happened easily, napping...
For a long time, people struggling with mental health issues have been stigmatized. Whether they struggle with suicidal thoughts, drug addictions or mental illnesses such as depression or anxiety, the stigma can keep them silent. Often, we only recognize this silence when we lose someone and don’t know why. The...
“What’s that?” asked my new friend from West Virginia University, pointing to the Circle from Coulter Hall. Students from other universities had come to Oxford to work on a journalism project, and we were walking to a meeting. I knew what he was talking about: the large white statue that...
Last week, UM Ethics Bowl students argued whether or not the standard of sexual consent in legal policies should be an affirmative verbal “yes.” The red team contended that an uncoerced, verbal or signed “yes” at every “junction” between sex acts is necessary, while the blue team argued that contingent...
In light of recent mass shootings, both Republicans and Democrats want to create new legislation and policies to ensure that these atrocities end. Many Republicans believe the answer is to arm teachers and to put more police officers in schools. Democrats have a different answer: Many want to prohibit AR-15s...
A recent op-ed argued that sororities play a much larger role than they actually do in the instances of assault that happen on college campuses. While it does seem unfair to hold college-aged women in 2018 to the same standards as Victorian predecessors, the argument doesn’t acknowledge that sororities are...
Fifty years ago, in what would be his final speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. looked down from the “mountaintop” to tell a mass meeting in Memphis a simple message: Labor rights are civil rights. The great organizer and orator understood that these two issues were inseparably linked. The...
As we remember the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., we ought to take a moment to reflect on the countless individuals that made his legacy possible and continue it today. King’s legacy was one that will continue for generations to come, inspiring people...
Whether the images are ones that people recall with nostalgia – pageant queens, all-American football stars and Greek Revival buildings – or those that people try to hide from – young men rioting at James Meredith’s admittance and bullet holes in the Lyceum’s columns – depictions of the University of...
Structural sexism exists on our campus: IFC fraternities are allowed to host parties with alcohol and invite women to sleepover, but Panhellenic sororities ban alcohol and do not even allow boys to walk upstairs. “Most houses implement a strict rule stating boys are only allowed in first floor common areas,...
