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Skepticism about film’s ‘year of women’

Editorial • April 21, 2015

National Association of Theatre Owners President and CEO John Fithian declared 2015 as a progressive year for women in the film industry Tuesday at CinemaCon. “2015 will rock at the box office because...

MU SAND: Hydration should top daily priority list

MU SAND, Michaela Richardson • April 21, 2015

As busy people on the go, we sometimes forget how important it is to stay hydrated. Recommendations for fluid intake for average adults are 9, 8oz glasses per day for women, and 13, 8oz glasses for men....

‘Better’ is not good enough because #BlackLivesMatter

Editorial • April 20, 2015

A Baltimore man has died from a spinal injury following his arrest, but the problem is that no one knows how he got these injuries. Police say when Freddie Gray was arrested and put into a police van...

Poverty challenge fails to give taste of poverty

Editorial • April 19, 2015

Last week, celebrity Gwyneth Paltrow attempted the #FoodBankNYCChallenge, which attempts to raise awareness about how difficult it is to live on the SNAP (better known as food stamps) budget of $29 per...

Getting right with Yeezus

Megan Osborne, Life! Editor • April 19, 2015

I have a confession to make, and I’m finally ready to admit it. I like Kanye. A lot. And with Kanye appreciation came a general appreciation for hip-hop, a genre I was previously way too good for. Come...

Letter to the Editor

Anonymous • April 15, 2015

When I saw that SPJ had t-shirts for sale, I wanted to purchase one to show my support for my fellow student journalists. When I saw the shirts, however, I was immediately taken back to snide comments...

Food guilt, different perspectives

Jocelyn Gibson, Managing Editor • April 15, 2015

I have been meaning to write about food guilt for a couple of weeks now, but after attending the hunger event on campus Wednesday, I starting thinking about food guilt in entirely different ways. The...

The Golden Age of Hollywood is over, but movies today are still pretty good

Editorial • April 15, 2015

The Golden Age of Hollywood, a period of cinema between the late ‘20s and the mid ‘40s, is often heralded as the greatest period in the history of film. While it is true that many great advances in...

Not a feminist? Fine. Don’t put them down.

Editorial • April 14, 2015

A video by The Rebel contributor Lauren Southern went viral last week as she explained all the reasons she claims she’s not a feminist. Despite the somewhat faulty statistics (most of which ignore any...

Women won’t vote for Clinton just because she’s a woman

Editorial • April 13, 2015

Hillary Clinton officially announced that she is running for president Sunday with a YouTube video posted on her website and Twitter. Clinton went very broad with her appeal in the video, featuring single...

Back up your files before you regret it

Amanda Gibson, Columnist • April 13, 2015

I am so bad about backing up my computer. I have a flash drive where I keep pictures and another I use for important files for school, but by no means do these two flash drives hold everything I have on...

#MeganMusicMonday: Festivals are a must-go

Megan Osborne, Life! Editor • April 12, 2015

As I sit here in the newsroom trying to recover from watching Circa Survive’s Coachella set via live stream, I am taken back to the sweet smell of dust and sunshine that permeates music festivals, and...