Gillian Daley/ Staff Writer While we often think of things like limited mobility, blindness or deafness when we think of disabilities, there are a lot of people who aren’t necessarily included in the conversation about disabilities. Naturally, human beings tend to focus more on things that we can feel, touch and perceive in a tangible […]
Gillian Daley/ Staff Writer His name was Jordan McNair. When emergency service medics finally covered his strained and overheated body in a sheet and begun to move his corpse the long distance across and out of the University of Maryland’s football field, he was only nineteen. McNair, who will never see his twentieth birthday, died […]
Gillian Daley/ Contributing Writer She has exploded onto the scene; hard lines of determination are etched into her face and she stands, well composed, with a hand on each hip. Her brows are furrowed in concentration, and she’s sheathed in her most powerful pantsuit. She is the face of the future. Women are steadily beginning […]
Gillian Daley/ Contributing Writer For many years, women were barred entry to many different arenas of the professional world. That’s especially true when discussing career fields in business, finance or entrepreneurship. In today’s America, women are often told to stop reaching for equality. We’re told to be thankful for the leaps and bounds forward that […]
Gillian Daley/ Contributing Writer As we near the anniversary of the 2016 presidential elections — also known as the Election that broke Washington — some people may begin to notice that they’re experiencing some mild stress. It’s reasonable — anniversaries are, after all, monumental events and this has been a particularly interesting year for those […]
Gillian Daley/ Contributing Writer Monday, Oct. 9 will be Christopher Columbus Day, also known as the historically inaccurate colonial master’s celebration day. In this nation, Christopher Columbus has long been commended despite the fact that he was, in short, a fraud, and generally speaking, a despicable human being. In primary schools across the country, we […]
Gillian Daley/ Staff Writer In case you haven’t heard, Hugh Hefner is dead. The 91-year-old porn mogul died of old age at his Holmby Holmes estate, popularly known as the Playboy Mansion. The life and times of the founder of the Playboy empire have been causing waves of nauseating contention since Hefner began Playboy magazine […]
Gillian Daley/ Contributing Writer The reason why the ‘Hispanic identity’ is so difficult to write about is because there is no such thing as a Hispanic identity. We, as a nation, are heralding in the first Hispanic Heritage Month of the Trump administration, and as such, it’s appropriate to take a moment and reflect on […]
Gillian Daley/ Contributing Writer On Friday, Aug. 25, the oldest and most influential white nationalist forum in the world was shut down. The decision was made when the tech company, Network Solutions, seized the domain belonging to Stormfront.org, which had been run and operated by Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, Don Black for the past […]
Gillian Daley/ Contributing Writer Adding to the stress of evacuation, clean-up and dealing with massive power loss, FIU’s student body has just been dealt another blow. On Sept. 14, the external relations office sent out an email informing students of an extension to the semester’s academic calendar. While the campus opens to resume classes Monday, […]
Gillian Daley/ Contributing Writer Race and the United States have been at odds since before the colonies joined together to form this nation. The United States’ complex and problematic racial climate is difficult even for natural born citizens to properly—much less peacefully—process. Therefore, it must be infinitely more difficult for foreigners, expatriates and international students […]
