I recently created a Feminist Harry Potter tumblr for a final project in my feminist theory course this semester, and it started to reach beyond the confines of my classroom. In less than one week the blog reached about 80,000 page views and 2,000 tumblr followers.

J.K. Rowling has...

GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum recently argued with President Obama's desire for every U.S. student to obtain the opportunity to go to college. "What a snob," he said. "There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day, and put their skills to test, who...

If you haven't been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, you're well aware that pop culture icons Beyonce and Jay-Z are now parents to the most famous baby in recent history, Blue Ivy Carter.


Their daughter is now also the youngest person to ever appear on...

It's been a tough couple of weeks for Syracuse basketball fans -- let alone students -- with the increasing number of allegations emerging about Bernie Fine and the molestation of young men, including two former ball boys, while he was tenured as the assistant coach for the Syracuse men's basketball...

Everyone becomes a victim of nostalgia at some point -- it's common to look back on fond memories and also question past motives. Individuals come to important realizations in the midst of these recollections, courtesy of hindsight bias. The looming question is: what to do with these newfound understandings?
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Dear President Obama,

This letter is an act of desperation on behalf of my entire generation and peers. It is with a heavy heart that I ask you to condemn the use of excessive police force in the form of pepper spray, baton violence, and physically threatening techniques within the...

It's a scary and exciting time to be a college student in the United States -- often for the same reasons. We're living in a time of societal uprisings and social change that, in many ways, parallels the electric culture of the 1960s revolutions -- equal rights legislation, wartime and...

I'm not going to lie: I love a good rumor -- unless it's about me, of course. But a number of myths float around college campuses about female students and general expectations of women that simply aren't true.

A college campus has served as a place where women thrive and...

For a lot of seniors in college, the fall semester marks two beginnings: the beginning of the end of their undergraduate career, and the beginning of their job searches. Students on campus are well aware that it's tough to find a job in our current economic climate. On Monday, a...

Inside Higher Ed released the results of a recent survey of admissions counselors Wednesday, and the collected data may drastically change the public's perception of what colleges and universities are looking for in prospective students. The survey's results prove that institutions of higher learning are prioritizing one aspect...