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E-Cigs: Death Sticks Get a Sleek New Upgrade
The use of electronic cigarettes, more commonly known as e-cigarettes or e-cigs, has drastically spiked in prevalence among children and young adults. This is mainly due to the shift from e-cigarettes being a way to quit smoking to a fun,…
Why Your Major Means Nothing
I’m going to admit something most parents are horrified of their children saying – “I am an English Major.” Wait worse! – “I am an English Major and I have taken enough classes to be a Music major… I am an English & Music major.”…
Feminist Friday: Do Something
On Tuesday night, I went to a workshop entitled “Whiteness and the Complexity of Anti-racist Allyship,” led by St. Lawrence’s own Dr. Meghan Carpenter. We talked about ways in which everyone participates in racism through systems and…
Your Phone Is Listening to You
Your phone listens to you. Yes, this is a conspiracy theory, but just hear me out. I love my phone more than most; I can’t even survive without it for, like, a day. But, in the pursuit of excellence, we should probably all stop using our…
Just Do It—Or Don’t
Nike’s new advertisement has people jumping on the “women can do it all” train left and right. I am here to ask: why? Sure, it is great to see a surge in empowering advertisements with a feminist message, from the much-contested Gillette ad…
The Truth About MLK Jr.
There is this ideology that Martin Luther King Jr. represents the desire of peace between white and black people, and automatically, the lesson of Malcolm X comes after. This lesson teaches young people that X’s ideology was violent towards…
Please, Consider Dietary Restrictions
Today I sat in Dana and slowly swallowed my sad food. Look, we all complain about the food here. It’s a sacred SLU pastime. But I’m not here to blame my bout with the stomach flu on Dana against the word of an ER doctor. But can someone…
Feminist Friday: Weaponizing Victimhood
President Trump proclaimed to his viewers at a press conference outside the White House a few months ago that, due to the #MeToo movement, it is a very scary time to be a man right now. Pushback like this against the #MeToo movement has…