Whether in a public or private place, in an alcohol-free atmosphere or one where people are drinking, all women deserve the right to know that they can enter social situations and still have control over their own bodies.

It’s happened with record sales, athletes and presidencies. Raised expectations mixed with an inability to adapt to shifting circumstances is a combination that too often results in disappointment.

By all rights, campus should be quiet on a Monday night as midterm season approaches, but instead, Kerckhoff Coffee House is loud and lively as the three-piece band Love Potion finishes up a set of jazz and funk, drawing on sources as diverse as 50 Cent and Bach.

I have a seven-page paper on Confucian ideals due in less than a week, a major English essay that needs to be turned in the same day, and so much Persian language homework that you would think I would be hard at work reading up for my classes.

The tentative agreement of diplomacy between Armenia and Turkey, which would reopen common borders and establish relations between the two, remains in the shadows of the larger issue of Turkey’s denial of Armenian Genocide.

For the past 19 years, I have experienced so much anguish and stress when it comes to my hair that I have been tempted to just chop it all off.

It was very simple, actually. I was going to double major in physiological science and some sort of humanities subject.

The “good girl” archetype is subjected to many different interpretations, describing personalities ranging from a moral figure exempt from any wrongdoing to a cowardly individual unwilling to live a little.

Media bias on both sides of the political spectrum was highlighted most recently during the 2008 election, with accusations of favoritism and leniency toward both parties.

This month marks the 40th anniversary of perhaps two of the most referenced events of the 1960s: the Manson Family killings in Los Angeles and Woodstock. Both have been reflected as the actions of out of control youth in a decade marked by cultural upheaval.