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.
Author Archives: Carla Gharibian
Straighten up that sophomore slump and rise to success
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.
Diverse nation’s dynamic dream remains universal at heart
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.
Think outside the books and talk to learn
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.
Armenia needs to honor its people’s demands
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.
Hair is a dynamic way to make a personal statement
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.
Get what you want: be willing to change your major or pursue an unexpected career
It was very simple, actually. I was going to double major in physiological science and some sort of humanities subject.