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Students across the country are occupying today for tomorrow

At what point does activism become terrorism? By Kacey Deamer The Federal Bureau of Investigation defines eco-terrorism as the “use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature.” In 1980, the [...]

The youth activists behind environmental advocacy By Kacey Deamer They jammed to the Spice Girls and Blink-182 in the ’90s. They lived through Y2K and the turn of the millennium. They saw the Twin Towers fall. They graduated high school. Now, they have a job to do. They are Generation X, and they are Mother [...]

Keep your cool while studying By Kacey Deamer t is finals week and you are sitting at a table in the library. It is well after midnight and your leg is shaking under the table as you clutch your pencil so tightly that your knuckles turn white. Your head feels like it is in a [...]

Taiwan’s battle for individuality By Kacey Deamer Who am I? Where do I belong? These are common questions we face as college students working through what we want to do with our lives. However, for us, the question is abstract.  For students in Taiwan, these questions are real. Am I Taiwanese or Chinese? To which [...]

Establishments add preferential parking for eco-friendly vehicles By Kacey Deamer Parking has become a new experience in recent years. When pulling into a parking lot you pass the commonly reserved handicap parking spaces and maybe a few “with child” spaces. Now, you may even have to drive past some prime parking spaces reserved for green [...]

Whalen is the best place to go to the bathroom By Kacey Deamer Since moving to campus in August, I have noticed poor quality toilet paper; it is thin, rough and rips too easily. Toilet paper isn’t exactly something I focus on, but it was a big change from the plush two-ply I was accustomed [...]

Mainstream TV shows and movies often portray obsessive compulsive disorder inaccurately. A producer from Monk explains why the seven-year-old show is different.

How Local Buddhist Monks Form Familial Bonds through Communal Living By Kacey Deamer Four men dressed in orange robes, a handful of students and 12 Tibetan families. This is not a description of the “average American family.”   Society’s perception of family is ever broadening. With divorce, single parents, same-sex couples and interracial couples, the [...]