There’s nothing quite as funny as seeing someone running on campus. And I’m not talking about someone running away from a mugger, or the people who actually risk their safety exercising on the streets of
With my family moving across the country and the university eager to push me off campus at the end of my freshman year, I was forced into a situation most Temple students face at some
“Selena has two mommies.” This surprising announcement was made by Selena’s friend at the summer camp where I met the two 8-year-old girls last summer. The statement wasn’t surprising because the girl had two mothers,
“Do any of you guys have beds that we can just temporarily remove?” my landlord asked. “Or ones we can just make look like sofas? Tell them the landlord lives downstairs. If they come to
Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows after publicly criticizing bilingual education. He said that it teaches “the language of living in a ghetto.” Instead, he suggested that English be made the
An article on 365gay.com, a site touted as “America’s most read gay news,” cites that lesbian and gay adolescents are three to four times more likely to report having been bullied than heterosexual teens. This
In the Darfur region of Sudan, 200,000 people are dead, 2.2 million have been displaced and there are 7,000 people there to protect them. Does that sound wrong to anyone else? This month, militia soldiers
When I think of Al Jazeera, the Arabic television network based in Doha, Qatar, the word ‘truth’ echoes in my mind. We have been at war for four years now and Americans still don’t understand
Western Europe is the “GO” square on the Monopoly gameboard of traveling the world. There are sights and experiences that Europe has to offer which no other corner of the world can. On the same
I am a flag-waver. I carry a 4-by-6-foot American flag whenever I’m abroad, whenever I’m representing this nation. That faded flag has gone from the wall of my rowhome in Philadelphia to a migrant workers’