When I started college, at age 18, I felt very grown up. I was ready for the world at large — ready to make decisions that would affect me later on in my life. After all, I was legally allowed to make...
One-time international sensation and pop singer Jesse McCartney has been announced as this fall’s headline concert act.Mackenzie Michalojko, the director of programming for Undergraduate Student Government,...
At the beginning of this summer, I wrote about how it felt to be coming to New York. To be embarking on my first summer by myself, to be headed toward the so-called center of the world. I wrote about how...
I haven’t started packing yet, but I know I’ll have to soon. My summer away from home is drawing to a close — at the end of this week, I’ll pack my two suitcases and drag them into the hallway...
Hey Flashes! I know you’re all ready to get back on campus and enjoy that late summer air, but before you start packing your suitcases or backpacks, why not make some plans for the week?Might as well...
I haven’t been in New York long enough to say this, but I’ll say it anyway: there are things about this wonderful city that I really don’t enjoy. I’m not the first person to list off the trash...
When we used to be sent downstairs to the basement to clean it, my mother impressed a certain belief onto my siblings and I. Groaning and grumbling, not wanting to really get down into the work, we did...
There’s a general idea, repeated whenever someone the public perceives as “good” is outed as “bad” — never meet your heroes. There are too many reddit threads about the rudest celebrity encounters...
Times sure are strange. The creeping vine of history wound around the podium at the Russia-U.S. summit in Helsinki, Finland, on July 16. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin stood side...
It seems a little silly to explain the virtue of so-called bad media to the internet as an audience, because, it seems, it’s finally been accepted into the realm of the sanctified. The Room (Oh hi, Mark,)...
When you think of the word HIV, what comes to mind? ACT UP in the ‘90s? Leather vests and pink triangles? Grainy protest footage and political funerals? You’d be right, in a way. That is the history...
Recently, there has been a big movement to end the use of drinking straws. Starbucks recently unveiled lids reminiscent of toddler sippy cups to replace straws completely by 2020. Last week, Seattle,...
