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So Long Sophomore Slump
Tweet Sophomore year isn’t about surviving, it’s about thriving. When you’re seventeen, it’s senioritis. When you’re college-bound at eighteen, it’s the freshmen fail-out (with perhaps a freshmen...
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Diplomas or Dollars: What Is the Student-Athlete-as-Employee Case Really About?
Tweet There’s a reason ‘student’ comes first in ‘student-athlete.’ ______ First, let me say I applaud the drive and determination of the students who speak fervently for the rights of collegiate...
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The First Half of Your Life Doesn’t Determine the Second Half
James Fell has a few wise words on how to take control of the rest of your life – for health and happiness. _____ Sometimes I think the only reason my inner lazy guy doesn’t once again claw his way...
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A New Force to Fight Campus Sexual Assault: Culture of Respect
Dissatisfied with the piecemeal approach to preventing campus sexual assault, a few concerned citizens formed Culture of Respect. ___ National awareness of the problem of campus sexual assault is...
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Can This Media Brand Become a Civics Superhero?
“Techies” debut new brand with goal of bolstering an informed electorate. — In a recent filming for a #PhillyChangers chat with digital-first, social good news organization, Generocity, I was asked...
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How Do The Changing Roles Of Masculinity Affect Your Relationship?
Going back to the future? We keep searching for ways to define ourselves and our masculinity. Steven Lake examines how societal change and men’s view of themselves affect relationships. — Most of us...
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The Perils of Praise
View image | gettyimages.com What happens when people who are used to getting praised stop getting it? Andrew Miller explains. ______ The Good Student was a teacher’s favourite in school, consistently...
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The Fringe Benefits of Flunking Out of College
Failure taught me how to detach my ego from the success or failure of my various endeavors. ––– “Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me...
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In Chicago, a Moment of Vulnerability and Healing Among Black Youth
400 Chicago high-schoolers, many of them struggling to see the value in their lives, are reminded by a millennial author that #BlackLivesMatter. — At the end of April this year, I gave the keynote...
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How to Talk about Suicide if You Want to Save Lives
Break down the root cause of an individual’s depression, but avoid comparing generational struggles. — On Friday, for the first time ever, I listened to The Nick Taliaferro Show on 900amWURD.com,...
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How My Daughter Makes Me a Better Man
Lance Burson saw he was the one learning when taking his daughter to college for her sophomore year Somewhere between checking the oil and gas in her car, and making sure her sorority house...
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On Global Campuses, Academic Freedom has its Limits
View image | gettyimages.com On global campuses, academic freedom has its limits. — Last spring, a New York University professor was prevented from traveling to the United Arab Emirates to conduct...
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In South Africa: Students Protest Tuition Hikes
View image | gettyimages.com Thousands of South African university students have taken to the streets in the biggest unified student protests since the first democratic elections in 1994. — The...
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Let’s Hear It For The (Frat) Boys!
Throw the stereotypes out the window. These fraternity brothers are compassionate, caring and community minded. — What comes to mind when you hear the word Fraternity? A group of partying, wild and...
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I Am Afraid No One Will Ever Love Me
Dr. Joe Kort answers painful questions from an 18-year-old man seeking the courage to come out and find love. — Dear Attitude Magazine, I am 18 and recently plucked up the courage to tell my best...
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Embed from Getty Images Big mistakes, and how to avoid them. I’m a college drop-out. I didn’t mean to be. I was going to be a professional. I was going to help others, and get paid for it. I was going...
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Cost of Higher Education Contradicts its Purpose
Embed from Getty Images College education has become a necessity in modern America as jobs offering high enough salaries to feasibly sustain a person in our culture become less in number and extremely...
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Racism is Real
Brave New Films put together this comparison of how blacks and whites are treated differently. What do you think? — Everyday activities are depicted from buying a house or a car, applying for a job...
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After Struggles With Coming Out and Drug Addiction, Gay Frat Brothers Fall In...
Troy Hallisey first met Henry in a college fraternity. It wasn’t until running into each other at a gay bar years later that they started dating. After the ultimate test of helping Henry overcome a...
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The Future Is Coming and There Is No Going Back to the Past
The past is gone. It is only an illusion that we can get it back. Good men must make the future great instead. — Have you ever had one of those experiences with other people where the moment was...
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