Story by Alex Curran It’s Friday night and the room is about half filled with wide-eyed kids in their late teens or early twenties ready to virtually fight each other. “It will get a little busier around 11 p.m. or Midnight,” Dae Lee said before he caught himself. “Or it may just stay dead. Last week we closed at Midnight because it was just dead.” Lee works at the Family Fun Arcade at on Balboa Boulevard just north of Devonshire… Read more
Why did this happen? What did I do to deserve this? What I’m going to tell my parents? These are some of the many possible questions that go through the mind of a sexual assault victim in the moments after sexual assault or rape. Yet, we rarely expect to think think that the victim might ask, “How can I bring my attacker to justice?” One reason could be because our culture is perpetually blaming the victims of sexual assault and… Read more
The Associated Students met today to discuss upcoming changes at meetings. A.S. will be live tweeting as a new way to reach out to students. People who are unable to attend can ask a question online and it will be read at open forum during the next meeting. Kevin Morjardi, marketing coordinator for A.S., said because some students cannot attend meetings, they can be informed by reading the tweets. A.S. had originally intended to live stream their meetings, but were… Read more
With finals just around the corner and student stress at a high, some students and faculty are concerned about the mental health of students during finals week. With budget cuts, hunger strikes and long lines for mandatory tests, it’s not that hard to imagine that many students and faculty are feeling their stress level rise significantly. The National Institute on Mental Health estimates that 15 percent of people ages 18-25 have or have had a mood disorder, the most common… Read more
He doesn’t look gay. In your life have you muttered that statement or at least of thought it? It’s a sentence that relies heavily on old stereotypes produced by our culture. He doesn’t look gay because he doesn’t have a limp wrist, hates musicals and packs on the muscle like it’s going out of style. The man is a man’s man, without the weird gay implications. Growing up in California, I found out early on that masculine qualities were, for all… Read more
The same thing that makes many men a “manly” man is also the same thing that leads men to die, on average, 5-10 years before their female counterparts: masculinity. Some argue that this difference is due to the sex hormone, testosterone, which makes younger men prone to make rash decisions. While higher testosterone levels slowly harden men’s arteries, the impact of natural and biologically oriented masculinity on society is very slight. Past the age of 35, testosterone slowly declines—fortunate because… Read more
The Mental Health Awareness Fair was held in front of Sierra Tower on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. featuring JADE(Joint Advocates on Disordered Eating) and the Blues project. Both are programs supported by the University Counseling Service.
If you decide to donate money for Autism Awareness Month this April, be mindful of where your money is going. There are many viable autism charities — the Dan Marino Foundation, Autism Self-Advocay Network and Aspies for Freedom — but I beg you not to donate to one organization: Autism Speaks. Autism Speaks is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Their website states the organization has “grown into the nation’s largest autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding research into… Read more
