“Attention must be paid,” Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller Last month, major media networks reported the deaths of four gay youth due to bullying and harassment, the most publicized being the death of Rutgers ...

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So much of UT’s campus has been transformed since my first semester in the fall of 2007: the mailroom was across the hall from Fletcher Lounge, there wasn’t a flagpole in Plant Park, and there ...

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On Valentine’s Day, I intend to tell my friends that I love them. I’ll call home and say “I love you” to my mom, and perhaps to my annoying little brother. Centuries of traditions align ...

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Have you ever noticed that a lot of trends repeat themselves? Everything comes back in style at one point or another, but they usually occur in twenty year intervals. In the last decade—the 00s, the ...

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I raved about Julie & Julia in my last column, calling it one of my favorite movies of the year. Over the weekend, on The Minaret Online, I checked the four comments that the readers ...

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I can’t help but joyously reflect on the year, despite the tragedies and hardships of another rough economic year; there’s been so much fun. Barack Obama is nearly done with his first year in office ...

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I’m a fossil, a relic, an antique: old—or I’m going to be. Granted, I’m only 20 but a large portion of my friends and peers in organizations are younger than me. For a while, many ...

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A couple of nights ago, I spent two hours instant messaging a good friend whose brother was murdered a few weeks prior. That was the first time we had spoken since she broke the news ...

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I pity everyone who didn’t make it to Dance Happening last week—it was so good I had to go twice. Since my freshman year, fall of 2007, I’ve attended all the Happenings. A body in ...

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Soon, the ghouls and goblins of pop culture will rise from the grave to consume the flesh of the living—and collect as many Skittles and Mr. Goodbars as possible! In recent decades, Halloween was as ...

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Like everyone else in the world, I was shocked to learn our president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The news reached me relatively late in the day, when Facebook statuses began to bemoan or ...

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Last Friday, all the leaders of campus organizations—myself included—were required to attend a leadership conference to help strengthen our leadership skills. I’m sitting in the ninth floor of Vaughn, the entirety of UT—Plant Hall, the ...

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It’s a gay old time on Primetime. In the past few years, there’s been an influx of gay characters on Primetime television. There’s Marc St. James on “Ugly Betty,” Kurt on “Glee,” and Callie Torres ...

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I don’t know about you guys, but I’m already tired. It’s only the third week of school and the consensus among my friends is that summer vacation’s long stretch of doing nothing doesn’t seem so ...

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