Eugene Lang College is known for its students’ involvement in radical political movements such as Occupy Wall Street. The way that we present our involvement in such a…
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Deleting Your Facebook Doesn’t Make You Irrelevant
A friend of mine recently deleted her Facebook page. Her decision was met with widespread concern, as if she were forever blotting her existence from the annals of…
The Big Apple That Feeds
A personal essay on student life in New York City Against the coffee house’s window-side ledge, a poet labors over her verse. The words just don’t sound right,…
Voting Is So Last Election: Tales from a past Obama-campaign worker
In 2008, I worked on the Barack Obama Campaign in my hometown Sarasota, Florida. I dove into the sea of red, determined to make my county blue that…
35 and Jaded: Reflections on the inevitable
Returning to my small-town home after my first year of college, I was interrogated by friends, family, neighbors and familiar acquaintances. I honed and refined my responses until…
Snark Attack: In Television, Overkill Is Underrated:
Why “Jumping the Shark” Is Necessary for a TV Show’s Success On the season finale of Southspoitation vampire extravaganza “True Blood” a woman gave birth to quadruplets…