Here we go again. Two weeks ago, the Georgia Senate filed bills to amend the requirements of both the HOPE and Zell Miller Scholarships — with the eventual hope of instituting an income gap. The usual move, sought with the intention of preserving the founding, floundering state-funded scholarships, brought the usual wave of indignation. Indeed, [...]
The end of the show said it all. The preference ceremony was over, and it was time for the Sigma Gammas to invite girls to pledge their sorority. Via two different colors of pearls, blindfolded girls received news of extreme joy or cruel heartbreak. In front of the founding members of the sorority and their [...]
Queen died when Freddie Mercury died. Numbers of people have tried to revive the feeling. Brian May and Roger Taylor tried to keep the spirit going. Paul Rodgers of Bad Company tried to save it, but nothing has brought the feeling back. Last week, Rolling Stone reported that the British group had found a new [...]
The start of last week’s hyper-publicized funding dispute between the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Planned Parenthood was, on the surface, quite simple. Komen announced last Tuesday that it is revising its granting policies, and that Planned Parenthood, among others, would be affected by these changes. The original statement did not outline a definite timeframe, [...]
“WARNING: It’s hard to be a little girl if you’re not.” In a society plagued by the idea that a healthy body image means being exceptionally thin, these new ads don’t help.Those words appear on large billboards underneath a black and white photo of an overweight child as part of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s initiative [...]
To much fanfare, President Barack Obama went before Congress last Tuesday to reflect on his past year. My, what a doozy it has been. The theme of the Obama administration in 2011 was irresponsibility. Coming from a college student who is used to witnessing (never, heaven forbid, committing) acts of sheer-stupid irresponsibility on a daily [...]
I remember the day it all began. I had recently been accepted early admission to a fully accredited, non-online University, and my 12th-grade government teacher was about to hand back the first tests of the semester. I feverishly flipped through the pages of mine as she walked away, smiling like a sphinx guarding the riddle [...]
In last week’s State of the Union address and in subsequent interviews, President Barack Obama blamed House and Senate Republicans for his inability to pass beneficial legislation. The Republican response? It’s all Obama’s fault. News flash: both sides are at fault. In what amounts to a nationally covered version of “the blame game” played between [...]
I’m a horror addict. Since childhood I’ve bathed in the dim glow of a television, watching as sea monsters devour ’40s starlets and crazed ax murderers deliver fatal, bloody blows. As a suspiciously creepy doctor traces his eager fingers over a sharp blade, I study the bad lighting on his patient and scoff. The predictability [...]
The Poynter Institute: authority on all things journalism. At the forefront of media research. Telling me I should join Pinterest? It’s no surprise that hoards of my sorority sisters and female friends have already joined Pinterest, the image-oriented online bulletin board where users can aggregate photos they find around the Internet. My Facebook and Twitter [...]
