It’s always a bit awkward for me when the topic of antidepressants comes up in conversation. It may sound like an odd subject for your average college student to discuss, but in reality, college...

The 14th International Transgender Day of Remembrance ended five days ago, but this holiday season in particular, it remains fresh in my mind. Over Thanksgiving break, I met up with my friend Cris for...

Nov. 7 of this year is already being referred to as the dawning of a new liberal America. The same election that brought a re-elected President Barack Obama also brought with it the legalization of recreational...

  When you are not part of greek life, it is all too easy to make generalizations about it. Classic American films like “Animal House,” “Revenge of the Nerds” and “Van...

The past 10 years have brought a multitude of natural disasters. Be it the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 or the Sichuan earthquake in 2008, news outlets have never failed to generate...

Halloween, to most college students, is a day of enclosed anarchy. Donned in various costumes ranging from sexy ninja turtles to human-sized Tetris pieces, hoards of us hit the streets every October with...

Last Tuesday, I went to Coffman Union with the sole purpose of buying a sandwich. As I crossed the bridge, I noticed a fairly large group of people clustered in the lawn area. Failing to see the sign that...

The Korean adoptee experience is fairly easy to summarize. The patterns are there. The literature written about it always follows along the same trajectory. In this way, my story is not all that unique,...

On an otherwise ordinary day at the tail end of summer vacation, my friend dragged me over to her computer. “You have to see this,” she said. She pulled up the music video for a song called...

When I tell people that I’m taking a Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies class, the response is almost always split down the middle. Women say something along the lines of “that’s interesting.”...

September is coming to a close. This brings with it the end of Suicide Prevention month, a tribute to which most Minnesotans pay extra attention. Between 2009 and 2011, there were nine suicides in the...

Matthew Heimbach, a student at Towson University in Maryland, has recently made headlines for wanting to start a White Student Union on campus. According to an interview in the student newspaper, The Towerlight,...

Before 9/11 I thought I was white. This might sound ridiculous to some — how could I, with my black hair and slanted eyes, possibly forget about these obvious physical differences? It was easy while...

Studying abroad is ridiculously expensive. I’ve heard it all — there are scholarships; the cost is the same as tuition so you’re basically paying the same; it’s worth the money;...

At this point, more people are aware of Frank Ocean’s sexual preferences than the content of his first album, "Channel Orange." On July 4, when he posted his now famous Tumblr story describing the...

Last month I went to a conference in Connecticut that was predominantly attended by 50- to 60-year-olds. On the last day I asked my new baby boomer friends how they were getting home. "Our husbands are...

In a time when the concepts of diversity and race are such hot-button topics, it’s easy to hate Lena Dunham and her new show on HBO, “Girls.” With its all-white cast of female characters...

I look back on my years of childhood fondly. Life was so simple then, when my thoughts consisted purely of friends and playtime. Upon entering college, life got much more complicated. I watched my social...

I caught my first fish three days ago on the East River Flats under the I-94 Dartmouth Bridge. The air reeked of sewage; the water was filled with rotting fish, trash and questionable looking white puddles...

The University of MinnesotaâÄôs new president, Eric Kaler, has promised to make diversity on campus one of his top priorities. In order to attain more minority students, he will implement the Educational...

As a shy freshman girl who came to the University of Minnesota not knowing a soul, I breathed a sigh of relief when I discovered the Asian Student Union, one of the many culture clubs on the second floor...

In a whirl of platinum blonde hair, Alexander McQueen silk and Christian Louboutin stilettos, Lady Gaga strutted onto the scene in 2008 and became a full-blown phenomenon. She was a refreshing splash of...

What could possibly encapsulate American culture better then a 50-pound, 138,226-calorie bacon cheeseburger pumped full of Jack DanielâÄôs BBQ sauce? Not much, but a 12-story grilled cheese tower...