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By Julissa Trevino After over two years of missing their live shows, I finally saw my favorite band 311 again on Nov. 27 at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom. Just like the other four times I’ve seen them, 311 didn’t fail to put on a good live show (they’re actually quite known for their live [...]

By Julissa Treviño Photo illustration by Plamen Petkov for Fast Company. In the past few years, China has become the most aggressive investor in Africa, according to a Fast Company article. “There are already more Chinese living in Nigeria than there were Britons during the height of the empire. From state-owned and state-linked corporations to [...]

The Effects of Migrant Workers in Upstate New York By Julissa Trevino Sarah Lindland, an Ithaca College senior who teaches English to migrant workers, told me she had a lot to say about immigration laws. She had been teaching English through IC’s Intercambios program to her now-deported friend, Byron, a 25-year-old man from Guatemala, for [...]

By Julissa Treviño There has been a lot of speculation and suspicion about corruption and illegitimacy surrounding the re-election of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. President Karzai was automatically given a second term Sunday, after his opponent, Former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, dropped out of the race just six days before the run-off election. The Nov. [...]

By Julissa Treviño Honduras After Honduran President Manuel Zelay was ousted by the army, and voted out of office by the Honduran Congress, in June in the first military coup in central America since the Cold War, most international aid to Honduras was suspended and the country’s borders have been closed off. This political crisis [...]

An Ithaca Family Cooks Up Some Love By Julissa Treviño Inside DeWitt Mall, next to the Bookery and across from Past Times, sits Dino’s Mediterranean Deli — a family-owned and  -operated business recently opened in August 2008. Dino’s is like many other places in Ithaca in that it’s a small family business. But Dino’s isn’t [...]

Legitimizing critical theory within the genre By Julissa Trevino From UC Berkeley’s Tupac course to Syracuse University’s course on Lil’ Kim, hip-hop is becoming ever-infused in the academic world. There’s no doubt, though, that when people listen to the tasteless and tacky of the hip-hop and rap genres (read: 50 Cent, Soulja Boy and the [...]

Magnolia Pictures, 2009 By Julissa Trevino The first few minutes of Two Lovers are completely silent as Leonard (Joaquin Phoenix) hastily makes his way along a boardwalk on a cloudy day–and jumps off into the water. As he’s saved by a passerby, he seems lifeless and gets up without making eye contact with the people [...]

By Julissa Trevino  A November 2008 article in National? Geographic News reported that most fast food is made of corn. Of the hundred? meals bought for the research study, only 12 servings of anything were found to? not go straight back to a corn source. The study revealed that some form of? corn was the [...]

Racial diversity initiatives absent in college policy By Julissa Trevino “There’s a way in which diversity can becomesuch a broad, vague and general term that it means nothing in the end,” said Asma Barlas, professor of politics and program director for Ithaca College’s Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity. “But at the [...]