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column \ crying wolf \ victim blame
COLUMN: ‘Crying wolf’ ruins careers and tarnishes reputations
You are a high school English teacher. You enter your classroom like any other day, preparing to teach. You suddenly notice your students are staring at you, pointing and snickering. Come to find out, you are the center of a rumor around school that you are performing sexual acts with one of your students.
column \ discrimination \ HIV/AIDS \ Kristopher Sharp \ University of Houston-Downtown
COLUMN: HIV doesn’t discriminate against people, people do
Fliers circulated around the University of Houston-Downtown campus portraying a photo of student Kristopher Sharp with an oversized ‘X’ crossed over him and the words “WANT AIDS?” and “DON’T SUPPORT THE Isaac and Kris HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA.”
column \ domestic violence \ relationships \ violence against women
COLUMN: No one will love you like I do… when my first love turned into a nightmare
“You bitch! Why are you out with your friends? They’re all whores.” I don’t know why he hated my friends, he just did.
column \ critical thinking \ education \ standardized testing
COLUMN: Undervaluing education leads to hard transition after high school
I like to look back on my transition from high school to college as an easy one: I was older, wiser and prepared to conquer the world with the knowledge that the state of Texas deemed satisfactory for a 12th-grade graduate.
boomerang generation \ column \ parental perspective
COLUMN: They’re back…it won’t be an empty nest for long
There is an amazing feeling of pride a mother feels as her daughter strides across the stage to receive both her high school diploma and associate’s degree simultaneously.
Why did you post that?
Social media has given the world a voice; it has brought us together in ways we could have never imagined. While I will be the first to admit that this is a great thing, more often than not I find myself asking out loud, “Why did they post that?”
Beatles \ celebrity deaths \ column \ rumors
We buried Paul, but not the rumors
I was having a delicious meal with my amazing boyfriend and his family at the Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando, and given the environment we were eating in, we were discussing music.
column \ Houston Rockets \ Kevin McHale
COLUMN: Houston Rockets bring back Clutch City
Remember when Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon was winning back-to-back championships for Clutch City? Remember when the quote “Never underestimate the heart of a champion,” by Rudy Tomjanovich the former Rockets head coach, was commonplace?
body image \ column \ media influence
Defining yourself by character, not physical beauty
Every morning after my shower, I stand in front of the bathroom mirror, and try to force myself to look at my reflection for 10 seconds. I have never lasted the full 10 seconds.
column \ hip-hop \ music \ urban America
We are hip-hop: ‘The voice of urban America’ fans
Somewhere in America, right now, a self-proclaimed “hip-hop head” sits at a sticker-decorated Macbook exhausting 140 characters on why hip-hop is dead. With the age of the social media came the casual critic.
