July is National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month, making it timely to discuss the entertainment industry’s portrayal of facial deformities.
Many villains have facial deformities,...
With the world’s population becoming increasingly reliant on the Internet for communication, many have taken up the habit of getting their information from social media like Facebook and Twitter....
While I have been recently boasting about reading more, playing board games, and cutting down on Netflix, I will also say that I have spent my time this summer playing video games — something I think...
We are a society where equality, justice, and liberty exist only for certain people. Political issues concern taxes, gun control, or campaign finance reform. America continually turns basic human rights...
There are no words to adequately express the shame and indignation I feel as a citizen of the United States in the wake of all the violence that has occurred in the past weeks, months, and years at...
I have family on the west coast. I can only see them once a year, usually during the summer, and our trip only lasts a week. Due to COVID-19, our plans have drastically changed this summer. While traveling...
States need to shut down again to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic.
If there’s one thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us, it's that the American people cannot take care of themselves. The...
The American education system has an immense issue that needs to be addressed. Students are learning a sugar-coated version of American history which only addresses the ideal and triumphant aspects...
Here we are, more than a hundred days since students went home for spring break, and subsequently the COVID-19 quarantine break. Roughly fifty days left until school starts. What have you been doing...
Wear a mask in public.
In case you’ve forgotten, we’re still in the middle of a pandemic.
It may not feel like it, with states reopening and sports coming back, but the United States recorded...
There has been a lot of darkness in the world recently with George Floyd’s murder, protests against police brutality and racial injustice, and a seemingly endless quarantine. We all need something...
This week is Helen Keller and Deafness and Blindness Awareness week, making it timely to discuss what the University of Iowa can do to make its campus a more inclusive place for students and faculty...
