Skin tones are a frustrating thing. They can be hard to match foundation to, sometimes they get an awkward color when you get embarrassed, and sometimes they’re the sole reason for judgments, and even massive civil change.  Surely, it’s striking to you all, that such a simple thing—the color…

Gaggle is a new controversial app that has aided in the sharing of explicit photos around the UA campus, according to UAPD officers.  I think this is a relevant topic of discussion for this week because once again, we’re seeing a resurgence of the “naked pics” era.

Gaggle.  I downloaded it, for the sake of understanding my assignment of course.  After I did, in fact, download it, I can confirm that it’s a local message board, much like the popular app Yik Yak.  However, it allows students to share photos, and 98 percent of them are of naked women who y…

But first, let me take a selfie…a naked selfie that is.

In 140 characters or fewer, you can tell the whole world you’re living it up in Miami, or that you’ve never had In-N-Out Burger or that you’re simply bored at home. That’s right, I’m talking about Twitter. Twitter is an amazing invention—you can tweet out, hashtag, follow, unfollow, mention,…

Any senior member of Greek Life knows what qualities make a potential new member worthy of a fraternity or sorority bid.

It’s an age-old debate:  Should colleges pay their athletes?  It’s a question I enjoy attempting to answer, but before we talk about how I feel, let’s talk about how America feels.  According to a recent study from ABC News and the Washington Post, about 66 percent of Americans oppose paying…

When people go to college they’re instantly infected with what I like to call the “spring break ideal.”  The spring break ideal is defined as such: The idea that spring break in real life is going to be just like spring break on TV.  I’m here to tell you that although spring break is necessa…

There’s a certain amount of irony inherent in paying for college—we take out loans and spend all our money so we can get a job that allows us to spend our first 20 years of freedom paying back the institution that gifted us with “higher education.” There’s little doubt about the value of a c…

As a modern, independent woman, I like to think that were I to ever be assaulted, I would report it and do whatever I could to make sure my attacker were put behind bars. However, if I knew there would likely be little to no follow-up or the investigation would be severely insufficient, I do…

In politics, it’s rather rare when two influential men make the metaphorical reach, across their political aisle, to attempt to make a difference in something they can both see the need to change.  Senator Rand Paul, one of President Obama’s greatest critics, has joined forces with Attorney …

Things have been heating up in Russia, and this isn’t another article about the Olympics.  It’s time to talk about Putin and Obama and Ukraine, oh my!  When world powers engage in word wars, real wars very seldom follow.  But as is evidenced by past disputes, America considers itself the gua…

Every first lady has had a project during her time in the White House.  For Hillary Clinton, it was an attempt at reforming health care.  For Laura Bush, it was educational reforms.  Michelle Obama is making her mark amongst ranks of first ladies, and she’s doing it through food.  More speci…

The Olympics are a stake in cultures all over the world. Millions and billions of people tune in each year to see the Olympic Games and see people from their country represent and hopefully bring home the gold.  This year during the preliminary press for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Ru…

While the nation has been captivated over recent years with the concept of potential active shooters roaming around schools and college campuses, there has been a markedly strange lack of concern for those equally young, and mostly innocent victims, shot outside of the educational environment.

Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York recently announced New York State will fund college for prisoners. He said it is his hope this will give those serving time an opportunity to obtain a college degree that will help end the cycle of recidivism.

Bill Clinton is a man whose name holds more esteem in the hills of Fayetteville than most places in this great nation.  After all, he’s one of our own.  We drive by the Clinton House every day on the way to the Harmon Avenue Parking Garage, and we honor his Arkansas heritage every time we wa…

Hunger.

Coca-Cola debuted their latest commercial at the Super Bowl and it struck an immediate nerve with viewers across the nation. The song “America the Beautiful” is sung not only in English throughout the commercial, but in six others as well. People are up in arms about this all over social med…

“The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal,” said American writer Kurt Vonnegut.  

The Super Bowl was actually quite exciting this year, I wasn’t really rooting for either team but it was entertaining to watch the Broncos get their you know what handed to them (I mean they got hammered...so bad…).  Anyway, what was more entertaining than that were the commercials, my top f…

I don’t know about you, but this looming government shutdown in Washington is STRESSING ME OUT. This crisis reminds me of the whole debt crisis of 2008 when Boehner went behind the Republicans and “Young Guns” back and made secret plans with President Obama and then it backfired and the Hous…