Students, we know you’re tired of the semester, but thankfully spring break kicks off on March 5. All you need to do is power through this week and you’re free… well, at least for seven days.  You absolutely deserve a break, but where you spend that time definitely says something about you — but what? Let’s take a look. 

Though I’ve struggled with OCD my whole life, I only received a formal diagnosis about a year ago. Part of the reason it took so long was that I didn’t fully understand OCD, and that’s because I never saw it represented anywhere — or, rather, I never saw it represented accurately anywhere. I thought it was just about being neat and clean and freaking out if things aren’t in their place, and although this can definitely be part of it, it’s not everything.

The neo-Nazis who protested outside of the Broadway show ‘Parade’ are using the antisemitic tropes discussed in the show as fuel to their fire, which is extremely dangerous.

The aggressive sanctions on Syria are part of the reason that the effects of the earthquake were so devastating and should therefore be lifted entirely.

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Four Loko is a legendary drink, not because of its taste, but what college students experienced while drinking it.

Misogyny seeps its way into our alcohol preferences.

Surprise! Drinking beer may actually have positive effects for training runners. 

Celebrity culture can also be subjected to the act of queering, since celebrity culture relies on narratives. Social media, interviews, headlines — all create narratives about a celebrity that make a character. Headlines and topics of interviews are all carefully crafted by a PR group hired by the celebrity to tell the world what to believe about them.

But after hundreds of years and more than a thousand people killed, Pennsylvania’s governor is paving the way to change history.