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Netflix's "I Care A Lot" Promotes Anti-capitalist Sentiment
With movie theaters in many states still closed, home entertainment has skyrocketed. Online video streaming services have witnessed a 26% increase in subscriptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Options for movie viewing are consequently limited to what these streaming services provide.
The trouble with tour groups
Spring is in the air. The birds are chirping, the darties are starting and the campus is suddenly filled with an influx of prospective students who want to tour the University of Massachusetts. There’s no missing them, for they come only in large packs, all huddling together with bored looks on their faces and holding their shiny red new folders. They are constantly in the way, taking pictures and staring blankly at poorly-designed maps of the campus.
What America actually thinks about gun control and mental illness
“This presumes that mental illnesses are intrinsically violent, or inherently cause individuals who are suffering from them to be violent, which is simply not supported by the facts.” If you Google “gun control America,” the results are immediately fraught with divisive language, pitting broadly grouped categories of pro-gun conservatives and anti-gun liberals against each other. In the media, these categories are often presented as mutually exclusive and perpetually in categorical opposition.
Keep news where it belongs
By this point, we’ve all heard the term “fake news” quite enough, so I promise to use the term as few times as humanly possible. There have been many takes on the causes of the toxic epidemic as media outlets scramble to attempt efforts to solve this problem, but the medium in which news is shared is unfortunately being overlooked.
Massachusetts Daily Collegian
To our readers and community: In today’s media climate, people aren’t picking up newspapers like they were previously. This is a problem that news organizations all ove...
Massachusetts Daily Collegian
When the Adderall problem first appeared in the early 2000s, the media and public responded with a reasonable degree of surprise and shock. This was not your average drug problem and not your average drug user. Most of the individuals who abused these harmful “study drugs”—a combination of dextroamphetamine and amphetamine—were young adults ages 18-25 college kids. What was unusual, though, was the type of students abusing the drugs.
Curious about George: It’s time to talk about UMass’ secret monkey lab
My first class of the semester opened with the typical use of an icebreaker — tell us one controversial opinion that you have, which quickly digressed into a debate over the best TV series. But then, someone made a joke about the monkey lab at the University of Massachusetts. The professor promptly leapt over to the door, shut it, sighed and began to address everyone’s confusion.
When your favorite comedian is accused of sexual assault
When I first saw the headlines, I was shocked. I could not believe what I was seeing. “Louis C.K. Is Accused by 5 Women of Sexual Misconduct.” I have watched Louis C.K. for years, enjoying all his explicit and controversial material. From dead grandma jokes to rodent sex, the man redefined dark humor. I loved it.
Swipe right for love? Probably not.
For most of us, Tinder has become a standard part of our lives. Odds are, you and your friends have dating app profiles, even if you created them a year ago, used them for a month or two and then forgot about them. Though a host of dating apps exist (Grindr, Bumble, Coffee Meets Bagel, OkCupid), the most common among college students is Tinder, which is used by 84 percent of students that are on dating apps according to an Adobo survey.
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
The week prior to homecoming, the Resident Assistants in my building bribed my floormates and I with donuts to attend the much-anticipated floor meeting. I expected the first order of business to be a description of the usual precautionary rules regarding homecoming and ‘Halloweekend’: Do not illegally consume alcohol or drugs on campus, do not black out in the common room area, do not sprinkle pieces of broken-up condoms through the hall like flower petals—the usual.
Power to the Thin Mint: improve the Girls Scouts program
On the – which is on Oct. 11 for those of you who, like me, didn’t know that it existed – the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) announced that girls will now be able to join the Boy Scouts. My first thought upon hearing that news was, “What? Is that not what the Girl Scouts of America are for?” I felt immediately ashamed at not seeing the politically correct, probably self-evident liberal explanation for this change, scolding myself as a bad liberal.
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
Immediately upon entering any bookstore, one is greeted with a few markers of pleasant familiarity: the distinct scent of enormous quantities of paper in one place, an overzealous sales representative, some aloof, vintage army-jacket-clad hipsters and, inevitably, the table by the front displaying the best-sellers. They all don that familiar shiny sticker, a stamp of quality and assurance–-“New York Times Bestseller.” The power of that little sticker is astounding.
Glazed and confused: what youth should know about vaping
That’s a phrase we are all relatively tired of hearing by now.
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