Sci-fi writer Arthur Clarke once said, “Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not.”
We are not. There’s so much evidence out there pointing to the fact that we are not the only sentient life forms that to think otherwise is ridiculous.
First off, let’s look at architecture. Stonehenge, the Great Wall and the pyramids...
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new numbers on U.S. unemployment on May 4, showing that the national unemployment rate has fallen to 3.9 percent as the economy added a net 164,000 jobs last month. Although the new numbers clearly display success of the national economy during the tenure of the Trump administration, the economy still has a...
Is it odd that soccer in the United States was once considered a women’s sport? This is not just stereotypical — the popularity of soccer, known as football internationally, rose stateside with the victories of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team in the FIFA World Cup in the 1990s. In both 1999 and 2003, the U.S. hosted the FIFA Women’s...
In the last decade, we have become obsessed with evaluating and reevaluating the success of our students. With the United States slipping further and further behind the rest of the world, politicians have decided that the status quo can’t stand. Unfortunately, the status quo has been replaced with something worse: excessively standardized testing.
For grade-school students over the past years,...
It’s clear that there is a certain unevenness in how “freedom of speech” is defined, regarded and respected at public universities when it comes to offensive speech — an unevenness, as pointed out by The Guardian, exemplified by recent events at two schools: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and California State University, Fresno. At Cal Poly, a fraternity member’s...
In a victory for California’s public higher education students, the University of California Board of Regents has delayed a vote to increase UC tuition by $342 for the 2018-19 academic school year. The delay of tuition is an important victory for lower-income students in the UC system. However, the threat of future tuition increases is destined to materialize unless...
