It’s getting to that point in the semester where I have a perpetual pain in my neck. The first time I encountered this pain was a couple years ago, and I convinced myself I had scoliosis, a brain tumor,...

Just more than 500 miles away in the city of Columbus, Ohio, Savanna Delong just won the city’s first-ever transgender discrimination case. According to an [article by LGBTQ Nation](http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2013/03/ohio-judge-fines-club-in-columbus-first-ever-transgender-discrimination-case/),...

Have you ever donated a couple of quarters to a child’s Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF box or given the bell-ringing Salvation Army guy a few dollars and wondered where your money would go and if it would...

“You can’t handle the truth!” Those famous words were the beginning of a speech from the movie “A Few Good Men,” in which the fictitious Col. Jessep explains why the decisions that high-ranking...

Last week, the Arkansas legislature passed a bill that will ban an abortion after a fetus has a heartbeat, which is usually about 14 weeks after conception. This bill is expected to be quickly overturned...

More than 100,000 different species of insects, 600 species of birds and 150 species of amphibians reside in this place. Several uncontacted indigenous peoples also dwell among these trees. Unfortunately...

I would like to take this opportunity to formally apologize for how talkative I am. If you have ever had to shush someone in a public place at MU, it was probably me. Also, I should probably apologize...

When I wrote about racism in pornography a few weeks ago, I received an odd amount of attention from [an anti-pornography activist circle on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/ENDSexploitation?fref=ts),...

As LGBTQ discourse sweeps across public forums through the combined efforts of activists and policymakers, the recent overwhelming surge for gay rights is accompanied by the sound of “Hey, I just met...

Whenever the budget is brought up in a congressional session or in the news, it always becomes an issue of which party wants what. Take the “fiscal cliff” debate that occurred throughout most of December....

As a college student, my only real obligation right now is to myself. My days consist of education, working, going out, planning for the future, and it is all for me, me and me. But despite my life being...

Political posturing is defined as taking a position on an issue strictly because it is politically advantageous to do so — for example, being against something solely because the other side is in favor...