Opinion
Strike a Balance: Time for love in romance, friends, family
By admin | February 16, 2012It's that time of year again! That lovely time when we all obsess over our relationships, or lack thereof.
It's that time of year again! That lovely time when we all obsess over our relationships, or lack thereof.
A montage of media clips flickers into focus in front of my armchair, and a matter-of-fact voice says: "There is a moral panic in America over young women's sexuality." The voice belongs to feminist author Jessica Valenti, and the clips flash from her 2011 documentary called "The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women." My armchair is planted in the Westhampton Living Room, where I'm one of the few attendees outside of students from the Women in Living and Learning program who are hosting the screening.
Contact cartoonist Peter Anton at peter.anton@richmond.edu
After reading the article "Studying Abroad: The Transition to Richmond," I couldn't help but notice that the sentiments in the article were quite different from mine studying at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Maastricht University operates on a learning system called Problem-Based Learning, in which students are given cases to solve as a group during class using the day's readings and the group's collective knowledge.
Last weekend, instead of using the Super Bowl as an opportunity to eat crappy game food, drink beer and hang out with a bunch of overly aggressive guys who are more interested in watching grown men with bulging biceps run around in spandex than cute girls in jerseys, my apartmentmate and I opted to go see "The Woman in Black." Sure, we might not be the coolest cats in the litter box, but we decided that this was the year to accept that we will never understand football and do something that we are good at instead.
I get it. Some Westhampton students view Ring Dance as a flawed tradition, and they are fully entitled to their views as members of our class.
Contact cartoonist Peter Anton at peter.anton@richmond.edu
I enjoyed reading the abroad experiences that many of my fellow classmates had abroad, and I agree with most of them.
Multiple types of media affect our perceptions and realities about all aspects of our lives. Such has been the case recently at the University of Richmond involving a social event sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. As it often happens, the use of social media provides information without full context or accuracy.
Everyone in the world is connected by the desire to be happy. There are thousands of articles out there on how to achieve and preserve happiness, yet people are still seeking desperately that coveted secret to contentment.
My first day of teaching in 2007, Jerome showed up 15 minutes late and disrupted my entire class, ensuring that everyone knew that he had finally arrived.
I would like to reply to both of your writers, Ben Panko and Elliot Walden, about "Guns on campus." As a faculty member, I may bring a perspective to the debate over guns that few students or colleagues share.
It disturbs me to find places on campus I have never seen before. In the past week, I've found three.
I would like to reply to both of your writers, Ben Panko and Elliot Walden, about this topic. As a faculty member, I may bring a perspective to the debate over guns that few students or colleagues share.
Contact cartoonist Peter Anton at peter.anton@richmond.edu
Every week students eagerly pick up The Collegian to read the "UR Busted" section, and every week someone's iPod or laptop has gone missing.
Before I say anything else, let me make it clear: any liberal (or person) who calls himself an American should believe in the Constitution.
I have resigned myself to the pathetic fact that I will be living in my parents' basement for the rest of my life, hoping that they love me enough to support me for years to come while I wallow in the sad realization that I will never get a job. As a second-semester senior, I'm moderately to majorly freaking out about my life post-graduation.
When I was a freshman, contraception was a joke. The pail of complimentary condoms outside each resident adviser's door led to laughter - but was always empty - and free condom stickers cheerfully adorned bulletin boards and mini-fridge doors. Sex was a joke, too.
Study abroad is not a vacation. You're not going to be staying in a luxurious hotel, you're not going to be eating at five-star restaurants and you're not going home in a few days.