It’s not a secret that with the public coming out of Mizzou defensive end Michael Sam, the topic of LGBTQ rights has been on, in and around the minds of most, if not all, MU students. I’m not going...

Last Wednesday, the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, the Legion of Black Collegians and the National Pan-Hellenic Council put on an event titled “Am I Still Black If?” The forum, as the flier described,...

“Death Penalty 4 Fags,” “God H8’s Fags” and “Fag Enablers,” complete with the Mizzou logo on it, were just some of the hateful signs that the Westboro Baptist Church held up Saturday as it...

I did everything right. I got out of class early. I set up my Mac on the right Web page. I copied and pasted all my debit card information for quicker access. But despite all of this, as soon as noon hit,...

I’ll be the first to admit this column can be rather critical, and that’s putting it a bit kindly. Indeed, operating under a social constructivist lens often involves the idea that things are “problematic”...

During freshman year in college, my closest friends were all males. This wasn’t on purpose, but it just sort of happened. They liked sports and didn’t party, so it was a good match. Looking back, one...

Michael Sam has sparked a movement, and I have watched it from across the sea where I’m studying abroad, wishing I were home to join it. His decision to come out has already made history, and as he...

On the surface, George Zimmerman and Ethan Couch have nothing in common. George Zimmerman is a 30-year-old white-Hispanic man from Sanford, Fl., while Couch is a 17-year-old boy from Fort Worth, Texas....

There’s a rather prominent blemish in how the social psyche views feminism, and it invariably involves the notion of an “animosity toward men.” The idea that feminists carry a misandristic, simmering...

I went on my first date at age 15. We went to see “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2” at the mall. Thus, the dating world had opened to me, and I had a lot of questions. Even at age 15, I was...

Earlier this month, Michael Cashman, a British member of the European Parliament, took to the floor to speak out against the anti-gay laws in Russia leading up to the Sochi Games. “The discrimination,...

I’m sitting in the warm confines of International Tap House, watching the snow rain down and life freeze for as long as I want it to. It’s a Tuesday night and probably the only one I will spend at...