Dear Editor,
While we at PETA are glad that writer Jessica Baker is decrying the cruelty of foie gras, please allow me to correct some inaccuracies in her column, “Forget the foie gras unless it’s natural.”
Ducks do indeed have a gag reflex. In fact, a common cause of death on foie gras farms is aspiration pneumonia (which occurs when ducks...
With the Super Bowl over and the people who legally agreed upon deals with friends whereby some would be given money in the event of the Patriots winning (not gambling, because that’s wrong), it is easy to see why people would love the idea of a metric to hang your hat on. Metrics guide us through our lives, informing...
Foie gras is terrifying.
Do not get me wrong. The thought of a light brioche bun hugging a burger made of foie gras, embellished with soft brie, then dusted with a handmade honey mustard and a huckleberry smear sounds scrumptious. This burger seems like the love child of American and French cuisine. As a butter-eating American, I would approve. Though...
A recent federal appeals court decision has ruled that flipping off a police officer is a legitimate form of expression and not grounds for pulling a driver over. This decision came about after a driver in New York was pulled over when he flipped off an officer who had a radar gun and was then charged with disorderly conduct....
Whenever I pictured graduate school, I imagined myself driving to campus in a flying car, sporting a tweed overcoat, smoking a cigar Tony Soprano-style. I’m not quite sure where this image of a graduate student emerged, but it’s a look I’m confident I could rock.
Now that I’m a third-year who plans to attend graduate school the fall following my...
Issues concerning the rising tuition of higher education and how they might be mended have yet to stop floating in the air around every politician’s head, many of whom are forced to at least look for solutions with their respective constituencies in mind. It is with this in mind that one of the more aggressive solutions to the ever-stressful...
Those of us in SJP would like to share some of our thoughts on the “Highland Write-Off” concerning the divestment movement on UC campuses, published in the January 20th, 2015 issue of The Highlander. Though we appreciate and respect both authors civic engagement with the issue, we thought there were several misleading and false portrayals of divestment in the...
Usually when cultural appropriation is discussed, Native American headdresses or wearing bindis as “accessories” by people outside of those cultural groups come to mind; however, there is a much more pervasive form of cultural appropriation which permeates college campuses that we accept on a daily basis: “Greek” life.
Cultural appropriation, in the simplest sense, refers to taking certain aspects of...
If people ask what I’m usually scribbling down in my notebooks, I feel I have to discredit my fan fiction by stating it’s “not real writing,” even though I believe it is. Common among blogging or writing communities on the Internet, fan fiction is produced and read in prolific amounts. Fan fiction receives its name from its writers, fans...
I have a confession to make: I love the State of the Union Address. I still own ancient VCR technology and have recorded every address for the past 10 years, and plan on continuing until video cassettes stop existing or I go to sleep in a pine box six feet underground — whichever comes last. I know way more...