Instagram influencers! Instagram may be taking away your “likes” but the Benjamins are still coming your way. With the latest trend in marketing continuing to favor social media and influencers, “like…
Collaborating in the Beauty Industry
After months of drama between beauty gurus, Jeffree Star and Shane Dawson turned to YouTube to reveal the business of the beauty world in efforts to help audiences understand the constant drama within…
Bryant Park: A Metropolitan Park in the City of Lights
By Sadaf Ayaz In the heart of Midtown where work meets leisure, hundreds saunter into Bryant Park. Naked trees loom ahead with branches entangled into one another, fencing the park and the memories wi…
Instagram Influencers: Advertisers of Tomorrow
By Orchida Harizaj Another day, another post. Haley McNeill sets up her camera, sits down on the other side and hits record. She starts to apply her makeup and shows the products that she uses di…
#WhyIDidntReport: Why Ford’s Timing Is Understandable and Not Suspicious
ByAFIA EAMA September 24th, 2018 “Ford waited 20 years to share her trauma with another person and waited 30 years to seek professional help regarding it.“ Christine Blasey Ford has become…
48-Hour News Blackout
By SADAF AYAZ September 3rd, 2018 “Honestly, it’s a grand idea for other social media-obsessed, instant-gratification yearning users around the globe.” During my 1.5 hour commute bac…
Reactance: When Protesting Can Do More Harm Than Good
By MIKAL MANN and KAITIE EDDINGTON August 2nd, 2018 “Productive protesting just requires a different approach: engagement with the other side. “ Although it may seem it started after Donal…
America The Melting Pot: “No, Where are You Really From?”
By HARITH MORGAN July 5th, 2018 “The nature of America being a “melting pot” or a “fruit salad” means that it is a country which people from around the globe flock to, bringing incredible cultur…
Cultural Appropriation: What is It and Why is It a Problem
By ALISON SUMMERFIELD June 23rd, 2018 “The intent in cultural appreciation is usually benign but as it moves to the appropriation it becomes more exploitative. But motives are often mixed, somet…
Why We Need to Stop Using the Word Mansplain
By VANSHIKA CHOWDHARY June 11th, 2018 “The word mansplain generalizes the social phenomenon to include all men – when you use the word mansplain, you stereotype men to all be condescending, pret…
The Question Why: Is Our Education System Failing Us?
By MICHAEL ZINN May 24, 2018 “I’d like to make a request of our educators: please welcome the question “why,” and even go so far as to encourage it.” A few days ago, I was showing several …
Once Upon a White Male Professor
By JANIS MAHNURE May 12, 2018 “This brilliant man who was intrigued by me but not enough to hear me out. Just enough to reel me in and spit out his reality.” Disclaimer: This is about my personal expe…
Millennials Are Tyrants: Why People Hate Millennials
By SADAF AYAZ April 11, 2018 “The new changes that become a normal part of life for the youth, become a strange, new concept for adults and because of this cycle, it seems, each generation gets …
“How Does A Kid Even F*** Up That Bad?”
By ANONYMOUS April 10, 2018 “It’s overwhelming and I shut the rest of the world out. I crouch down and close my eyes with my hands over my ears, just trying to block out the noise.” In res…