Opinion
Are You Listening?: How to relate, for white kids
You know when there’s a tragedy, and how everyone talks about it for a few days? We greet each other with “how tragic”s. In a way, we feel the pain of people dealing with an earthquake or a bombing or...Read More
Are You Listening?: Diversity vs. diversity: Is there a difference?
When considering the term “Diversity”, I believe it is important to recognize the difference between ‘diversity’ with a little ‘d’ versus that of ‘Diversity’ with a big ‘D’. Academic diversity, though...Read More
Are You Listening?: What about us?
Every year, thousands of freshmen across the United States begin their college education. The majority of us know how exhilarating distance from authority and the freedom of independence is. But for s...Read More
In defense of The Donald
Donald Trump has offended so many people in the U.K. that, this month, the parliament debated measures to ban him from entering its country. In the U.S., on the other hand, Trump has offended so many ...Read More
Are You Listening?: In defense of habitable spaces
Many conversations and discourses around diversity and inclusion in academia mention making spaces (often classroom-focused but more importantly, all spaces on campus) more habitable, or “safe.” Habit...Read More
Are You Listening?: Why I’m angry
I am angry. That I have to write this in the first place. That it took me this long to be angry. That every time I meet someone I fall into the habit of prematurely wagering if I’ll have to hide to av...Read More
Christmas Street, a Sugar House tradition 70 years strong
The residents of Glen Arbor Drive in Salt Lake City have been altering their ordinary street into a bright holiday wonderland known as Christmas Street each December for the past 70 years.“Oh, gosh. M...Read More
What is it and why does it want to kill me? Wind
Air is after me now? Have you been outside recently? It’s brutal out there.So what is it? Simply put, the flow of gases. Gases are a state of matter defined by a large separation between individual mo...Read More
Talking ‘bout our generation
"Fucking Millennials." That comment rings in my ears still, like a haunting. It's Monday morning, 10:27 a.m., and you want to know where I am? I'm standing in the middle of a frozen baseball...Read More
What is it and why does it want to kill me? Crystals
What are they? Crystals are solid materials with components that are arranged in ordered structures. These structures form a crystal lattice, a series of repeating units, that extends in all dire...Read More