It's winters like this when I ask myself why the heck I'm still in Utah. Sure, the last couple of days have been relatively warm and sunny (now knock on wood that it won't already be blizzarding again...

If we live in a post-sexism society, why does sexism keep making the news? Take, for instance, the new announcement that women can officially serve combat roles in the military. I don't pretend to understand...

On Friday, I turned 24 (that's why they really closed the campus that day). The Monday right before that, the first day of the semester, marked the beginning of my sixth year at Weber State University...

I'm not sure I get the point of New Year's resolutions. Well, I mean, I do and I don't. I think it's great if you make and keep them, but, for someone like me, who probably couldn't keep up her resolutions...

Many of us here at Weber State University are parents, or at least married with not-so-distant plans of becoming parents. Even those who are nowhere near having kids probably consider the big parenting...

Over the past few weeks, there seems to have been a recurring theme in my life — or at least in my lessons and readings. A couple weeks ago, we watched a video in my SOC 1010 class called "Tim Wise:...

We've all heard the complaint that Thanksgiving is the invisible major holiday. Marketing for Christmas begins the day after Halloween, or even earlier in some stores, and some radio stations are already...

And we thought our troubles would be over when the election was done. Sure, we might not agree with everything whoever is elected stands for, but at least the Facebook catfights will calm down, right? I...

Those of you who aren't creative writing majors, I know how you see us. I know. It's OK. I know when you think "creative writing major," you think of people who make the characters of "The Big Bang Theory"...

Genuinely chilling people's blood in the name of fun is notoriously hard to achieve. How many Halloween icons actually scare you? This can depend largely on how they are portrayed, whether by a film or...

Next month, Disney's newest princess will make her TV debut. Sofia the First is a cartoon for children that will air on the Disney Channel and Disney Junior, according to the original announcement in The...

We all know the college and university students who endlessly bemoan the hardships of student life: the overwhelming debt and/or bills, the accompanying necessity of working long hours in frequently thankless...