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They have been around since 1957, when Audrey Hepburn made them famous in the musical film “Funny Face,” according to InStyle, and for years they have been stirring up controversial conversations.
Were you counting on that refund to pay for books, rent and maybe food? So was I, and so were thousands of other college students in Pennsylvania. Time spent studying or with family is now spent on a part-time job. Some students are taking out extra loans or reaching into their parents’ savings to make up for the missing Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) money.
Halloween is a holiday where you can dress up and pretend to be something you want to be for the night. Sometimes, though, the costumes can go too far. As a society, we have a tendency to glorify costumes at the expense of others, all to ensure we have a good time.
A New Jersey elementary school is canceling Halloween festivities, not because of scary costumes or fear of hundreds of sugar-hyped kids, but because of “diversity reasons.”
Halloween is just around the corner and, for many college students, that means drinking and partying. While it is obviously good to have fun, many college students are drinking too much, too often and it is important to be safe, especially on holidays like Halloween.
In 2012, a monument of the Ten Commandments was erected on the grounds of the Oklahoma capitol building. Even after much controversy, it stood solid in its place for three years until it was finally declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, as it was a religious monument being displayed on government property.
While public schools worry about problems ranging from spending budgets and SAT scores, to gun violence and mass shootings, another kind of war is being waged in the halls of American schools: The war on public prayer.
Should Americans forget the holiday or continue to celebrate it?
It seems theft is becoming the greatest form of protest, at least to one man.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been trying to spread her appeal to the younger generation.
Do not panic, thousands of prisoners did not escape their cells. What is happening, or rather, what is going to happen, is that the federal government is allowing for the early release of nearly 6,000 prisoners, starting at the end of October.
Remember Joseph Kony? Perhaps the catchphrase “KONY 2012” will ring a bell.
At this point, we all know who Pope Francis is. He is the 78-year-old Argentinian-born Pope that lives in Vatican City, is fluent in many languages, likes to kiss babies and bless the disabled and is single-handedly turning the Catholic Church and the world as a whole on its head. Did I mention he visited America recently?
There have been 264 mass shootings in 274 days this year in America, according to Rolling Stone magazine.
Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, is the latest spot of a mass shooting.
The hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion emerged on social media on Sept. 19, letting women throughout the country voice their personal experiences of abortion.
