November 29, 2012
Over the past few weeks, there seems to have been a recurring theme in my life — or at least in my lessons and readings. A couple weeks ago, we watched a video in my SOC 1010 class called “Tim Wise: On White Privilege.” In his lecture, Wise doesn’t hold back on pointing out all [...]
We’ve all heard the complaint that Thanksgiving is the invisible major holiday. Marketing for Christmas begins the day after Halloween, or even earlier in some stores, and some radio stations are already playing full-time Christmas music. Personally, it’s getting a little old seeing people post on Facebook, “I heard ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ on the radio [...]
Continue reading …And we thought our troubles would be over when the election was done. Sure, we might not agree with everything whoever is elected stands for, but at least the Facebook catfights will calm down, right? I hadn’t yet joined Facebook during the last presidential election, so I was a little unprepared for the onslaught of [...]
Continue reading …Those of you who aren’t creative writing majors, I know how you see us. I know. It’s OK. I know when you think “creative writing major,” you think of people who make the characters of “The Big Bang Theory” look like social rock stars. You know who I mean. The frizzy-haired girl in the corner [...]
Continue reading …As a nod to the Halloween season, the Anthropology Club’s Michelle Dowdle invited Michelle Savage, who has practiced Paganism for 27 years, to speak to Weber State University students about the widely misunderstood religion. The lecture took place from 1:30-2:30 p.m. in Room 103 of the Social Sciences Building as part of the Anthropology Club’s [...]
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