The Collegian
Friday, November 22, 2024

Opinion


Junior captain Lauren Folgosa gets ready to drive the ball during practice on Friday. The women's golf team will play against 13 other schools during next week's Spider Fall Invitational. (Eliza Morse/The Collegian)
Opinion

Response to: Guns on campus law

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.


Opinion

College search for post-grad fulfillment starts

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.


Opinion

Free contraception regulations combat free will

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.


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Dating for dummies: Fool proof tips to roping in a boyfriend

Readers, if you're anything like me and you've spent part, much or the entirety of your college journey hooking up with people hoping that maybe, just maybe, one of these frat stars will be the one who acts like a decent human being and texts you the next morning to ask you to coffee sometime, followed by an invitation to a casual lunch, which is then logically followed by dinner and then, eventually, couples cooking, homeworking and holding hands on your way to the mail room, let me tell you, there is hope. Now, you all know that I'm the first one to frump around and complain about how my foreseeable future includes me being an old cat lady well-versed in Jane Austen and flower genera, but the impossible has happened.


Opinion

Whirlwind on campus, in Haiti

Two years ago last week, Haitians were suffering and dying after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake ravaged their country while I and other sorority girls of the University of Richmond prepared to prep and welcome new recruits.


Opinion

The Jenna Marbles Phen-o-menon

The side of my face is smushed against the carpet in a room in the Tyler Haynes Commons. A group of my girlfriends is sprawled around me, and we are all in rest-mode after an endless day of classes, homework and sorority rush.


Opinion

Jepson contradicts itself with Farrisee

First of all, nice scoop and reporting by The Collegian and reporter Markie Martin on the article entitled "Jepson leader involved in Tillman case." When I first read the article, I was surprised but I went on with my day.


Opinion

In Defense of Occupy Wall Street

"It has to be one or the other: either admit that the present social arrangement is just and then defend your own rights, or admit that you enjoy certain unjust advantages, as I do, and enjoy them with pleasure," Oblonsky says to his half-brother Levin in Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." "No," Levin says, "if it was unjust, you wouldn't be able to enjoy those benefits with pleasure, at least I wouldn't be able to.


Opinion

Response to Shariah Law coverage

On Oct. 20, the Muslim Law Students Association hosted Azizah Al-Hibri, a Richmond law professor, and Randolph Marshall Bell, ambassador and president of the First Freedom Center, in a town hall event with the express purpose to clear misinformation about Shar'iah and its practice in the U.S. In his coverage of the event, Collegian writer Tanveer Ahmed misunderstood the purpose of that meeting and published an article stating that Islam had no basis in science and criticized organizers of the meeting for "not tackl[ing] the issue of undue divinity provided to edicts that are many eons old, and are inherently arbitrary." When this line was later removed from online publication, Ahmed complained of the media being circumscribed by a "sickness of balance" - an insistence on balance for balance's sake. Arising from this discussion were several responses, ultimately unfairly thrusting Islam into scrutiny both on The Collegian's website and in print.


Opinion

Decompressing from Thanksgiving

It's that time of year again. The holidays are around the corner, work has started to pile up just enough to ensure that you have a perpetual knot in your stomach and every single thing is starting to get on your nerves. I don't know about you guys, but I certainly need a little breather from absolutely everything at this point.