I was walking out of my Zumba class when I came across a disturbing quote online from a Fox News host. During a discussion about young people and voting, “The Five” co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle said, “They’re [young women] like healthy and hot and running around without a care in the world. They can go back…
Remember going house to house yelling “trick-or-treat” and scurrying away in the costume your mom bought or made for you, bag filled with candy and heart as content as can be? Me too. Now when I try to trick-or-treat, parents give me weird looks and I end up holding a random kid’s hand in order…
Last Wednesday night, I nearly crashed my car into a palm tree. I was on my way to emergency chapter when I received a text that read, “Did a girl in your sorority just die?” I’d known that my friend Melissa Ribeiro had been sick in the hospital. But I’ve always looked at life through…
She’s a b*tch. He’s assertive. She’s crazy. He’s expressive. It’s a war of words, and women are losing. If I had a dollar for each time I’ve heard a guy dismiss his ex as crazy, I’d have enough money to pay for my own loony bin treatment. The thing I find crazy is how common…
“Diana, Bianca, Christine …” Hearing my professors complete roll call makes me feel like I’m back in my all-girls high school. Minus the nuns. I study in the School of Communication, where there are more girls than in, say, the College of Engineering. But the female-majority trend has spread across American college campuses. Since 2000,…
These are the top five reasons that I’m thankful for being a University of Miami student. 5. Palm trees How many college students can say that in late November, they’re walking through a campus studded with tropical trees under perpetually blue skies while the sun hits their bare shoulders (because tank tops are acceptable year-round)?…
These days, everyone has some sort of online outlet for expression, whether it is a blog, Facebook profile or Twitter account, social media lets us share whatever we want, whenever we want. But what if you truly had to think before you pressed the “enter” key? A journalist in China was recently arrested for posting…