Lara Loewenstein

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• Follow the lead to easy activism

  July 9, 2007 at 12:05 a.m.

  I’ve been feeling a twinge of guilt about my recent apathy toward political issues.

• No pomp or circumstance? Don’t forget to party anyway

  June 11, 2007 at 1:31 a.m.

  This is it. It’s time to graduate.

• Calling creationism a science takes freedom of speech too far

  May 31, 2007 at 12:11 a.m.

  In my mind, natural history museums are intimately intertwined with elementary school field trips, dinosaur bones and little plaques filled with facts next to each exhibit or artifact.

• Healing from sexual violence starts with a story

  May 24, 2007 at 12:49 a.m.

  Nina is a fourth-year art history and microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics student, pre-med, Indian and a survivor of sexual violence.

• When did equality become a bad thing?

  May 17, 2007 at 12:55 a.m.

  George Carlin didn’t put “feminist” in his list of seven dirty words, but considering all the negative associations with the word, he might as well have.

• Candidates need more exposure

  May 10, 2007 at 12:05 a.m.

  According to the Daily Bruin, only 28 percent of undergraduates voted in the last undergraduate student government elections. Not even enough to get a true winning majority.

• Mantras can’t make miracles

  May 3, 2007 at 1:13 a.m.

  Film director David Lynch has the answer to the itching question of how to stop school shootings forever – he’s going to teach 1 million students transcendental meditation. I’m almost waiting for Tom Cruise to announce his plan to convert a second million to Scientology.

• There’s more to casual sex than you may think

  April 26, 2007 at 12:01 a.m.

  It’s as easy as replying to a craigslist.com ad, checking a Web site for a location, or responding to an inviting glance in a public bathroom.

• Universities must learn from handling of shooting

  April 19, 2007 at midnight

  There are a few questions that have been circulating with regard to the Virginia Tech shootings. How many lives could have been saved if the administration had reacted differently? How ...

• Exorbitant expense of fornication nothing new, but still blows

  April 12, 2007 at 12:28 a.m.

  After a recent appointment at the Ashe Center, I was informed that I would now have to pay $30 a month to not get pregnant, double the price of what ...