The trivial, fallen state of hip-hop
AS A YOUNG kid growing up poor in Fresno, the one musical genre I found myself most attracted to was hip-hop. More>>

Making gradual steps toward gender equality
I SAW A VERY interesting bumper sticker a few weeks ago. It said, “I Comfort the Distressed and Distress the comfortable.” I laughed when I read it and immediately thought back to when I began attending university.  More>>

Library construction an annoyance
IT BREAKS MY heart to walk by the fenced-off expanse of dirt that used to be our library. I miss being able to wander down aisles of books and browsing through them, touching their spines, and finding great books by chance – books I wasn’t looking for and wouldn’t have stumbled upon if I hadn’t been poking around the shelves. More>>

Rejecting classroom passivity
WHEN I WAS approached to consider submitting an article for The Collegian, my initial reaction was a mix of disbelief and denial, not because I found myself incapable of writing something potentially interesting, but more because of the way I presented myself to my then-future editor.  More>>