Author Archives: Amber Bissell

I just realized I want Ray Bradbury to be my grandpa. And Don Cheadle to be my uncle.

“My hands hurt, so I’m going to stop clapping.”

There I was ““ half Indian, half white, but 100 percent awkward. My cousin Raj married his long-time girlfriend Carrie in Ohio after a week of Indian and Christian festivities. Considering my ethnic background, I had no worries about having to transition between the two cultures for the parties and the ceremonies, but I’d later […]

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes ““ a diploma? That was my response when reading the Daily Bruin article last Monday on the rising number of students getting married in or just out of college and the surprisingly high success rate of these marriages. But after researching and talking to students, I have […]

There’s a whole new meaning to the body and blood of Christ. The exhibit of a life-sized naked chocolate sculpture of Christ, by artist Cosimo Cavallaro, was cancelled due to an outcry from Catholic officials last weekend. The opening of the exhibit at the Lab Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York City […]

I want sex ““ a sex magazine, that is. Big-name university students across the nation have begun publishing magazines dedicated to sex, and some, such as Harvard’s H Bomb, are receiving university funding and even faculty advisers. According to a New York Times article, the creators of the H Bomb wanted a “literary arts magazine […]

You’re so vain ““ you probably think this column is about you. A recent study by researchers at San Diego State University revealed that two-thirds of college students scored above average on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, 30 percent more students than 25 years ago. Welcome to “Generation Me.” But this narcissism reflects not just inflated […]