Author Archive for Priya Arora
Hot Deals: Surviving Black Friday
Though retail sales struggle all through the year, especially in the past two or three years, Black Friday officially kicks off holiday shopping season with one of the busiest shopping days of the year.
All we Americans need is a holiday or two, and we somehow jump on the opportunity to spend money we may not [...]
Hail to the Queen
In a state that has been divided over a heated debate of gay marriage, an 18-year-old boy has changed the face of both sides. Openly gay since freshman year, Sergio Garcia of Fairfax High School in Southern California won the title of prom queen. What some might classify as trying to draw attention or attempt to blur gender lines, Sergio felt an empowering chance.
Is Help Here?:Taking Stock of Mental Health Since Virgina Tech
Last week marked the one-year anniversary of the day that Seung-Hui Cho began a shooting spree at a Virginia Tech dormitory and then killed 33 people, including himself. Across the country, people took the time to remember the events of the day and reflect that even those who were not directly involved were affected.
UC FOB Opens New Forum Magazine
CLUBS: New alternative magazine encourages students of all ethnic backgrounds to voice their opinions.
Beware of Benazir Bhutto
When you look past the four walls of our country and stare long and hard at the rest of the world, sometimes it is hard not to ask yourself, ‘What is the true price of democracy?’ Is it about spending billions of dollars funding a war to strengthen a democratic government? Or is it about [...]
Book Review: PostSecret
In November 2004, a man named Frank Warren started an experiment that, at the time, seemed like a good idea. Warren printed out 3,000 postcards. On one side, he invited people to share a secret, something true that they had never told anyone before. The other side was completely blank. He passed these postcards out [...]
Clubs Honored at Barclay
CLUBS: 28 awards were given out to academic, cultural and other types of clubs at the Barclay Theatre.
Student Studying Cut Short by Power Outage
POWER: Students in the libraries and freshmen dorms were left without power between midnight and 2 a.m.
Flock’s Bestseller Touches Readers
There come times in each of our lives when we feel that the way we act toward the world conflicts with what is in our hearts or minds. Elizabeth Flock took this idea to heart when she wrote ‘But Inside I’m Screaming.’ She follows a news commentator, Isabel Murphy, as she sits in psychiatric facility [...]
Bush Impeached
When I heard that Vermont passed legislation last week calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush, I was excited, shocked and a little stunned. These reactions were not because of the news of a state taking such a strong stance against the current administration, but because I was reminded that a state like [...]
