Author Archives: Rashmi Joshi

I will buy you Pinkberry if you can tell me where the Southern Regional Library Facility is.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

I think it was around ninth grade when the public school system decided we were ready for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and, ever since then, we have been more or less acquainted with the old “what is in a name?” adage. Hopefully, no one is still under the belief that if you called a rose a crapshoot it would still be the No. 1 seller on Valentine’s Day.

I’m almost half done with college and I’ve still never used the UCLA shuttles or the UCLA Evening Van Service.

Somewhere in New York City in a pink-walled venue covered in drawings of naked women and baby dolls smoking cigarettes, people flock to read their teenage diaries. These 20- and 30-somethings gather around just to stand up on stage and read out their most private and most embarrassing moments to complete strangers. Everything from junior […]

The United States has never had a law, statute or even court case that has granted women any rights. You cannot sue for gender discrimination and voting is a highly secretive ritual performed only by men. If any of this were true, then maybe the Equal Rights Amendment would make sense. But even then, an […]

Hopefully, this past week of spring break has been a long-lasting affair with the couch, with old friends and of course, with hometowns. There is an unwritten law that declares hometowns off-limits to time; change is just not an option. In this case, like writer William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, the miniscule towns of some students […]