Weinstein Embodies Toxic Masculinity
The idea of a man like Harvey Weinstein wielding the power he has is terrifying. As one of the top Hollywood film producers and studio executives in the business, the recent outpouring of sexual assault...
‘Playboy’ Represents What Feminists Despise
In this week’s issue, one of our contributing writers wrote about Hugh Hefner and his legacy, specifically relating his philosophies concerning sexual freedom to the beliefs of feminists. It would be an...
Title IX Guidelines Disregard Women
The University sends us a million emails every week. I skip by most of them; the ones that involve FUSA events and the new opera at the Regina A. Quick Center go unread in my inbox. It was only on Sept. 22...
DREAMers Make America Great
This past week on Sept. 11, amid the continued conversation regarding Trump’s rescinding of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), there is an additional story making waves as it concerns immigrants....
Confederate Monuments Mark America’s Prejudice
The fact that the summer of 2017 was characterized by a Nazi-led protest is still baffling to me. Though admittedly I’ve lost a lot of respect for some of my fellow Americans in the past few years, the...
Recent Hurricanes are An Overdue Wake-Up Call
In 2006, Al Gore’s environmentalist film “An Inconvenient Truth” came out, documenting the increasing damages climate change would wreak on our planet without humans changing the way we treat our...
‘Great Comet’ Brings Audience to Tears
It’s as though everyone in the Imperial Theater is crying. The stifled sobs are audible and it’s obvious the audience is choking back tears as the final Broadway run of “Natasha, Pierre, and the Great...
Fairfield Welcomes You Home
If you’re anything like me, the years leading up to college were filled with nothing but impatient anticipation. I couldn’t wait to go away to school and have a completely different life, to meet new...
Chechnya’s Actions Are the World’s Responsibility
In the past year, there have been extreme comparisons between our nationalist sentiments and the election of Trump to Nazi Germany and the rise of Hitler. This dire mental image only becomes exacerbated with...
Privacy of Gender Identity Must Be Respected
The latest season of the CBS series “Survivor” has sparked controversy when contestant Jeff Varner outed fellow castmate Zeke Smith as transgender, as reported by Vanity Fair. Though it was heartening to...