A university campus is an encouraging place to flourish, to learn, to obtain new ideas, to spread awareness, and where creativity and resourcefulness bloom. Community in its essence means a group of people living in the same place or having a particular attribute in common. It means the condition of sharing certain attitudes and interests …
When I was a freshman in college, I was raped by a guy that I really liked. He begged me to go out with him for weeks, and I finally gave in. The first time we were together it was, well, it was okay. I could tell he was self-conscious – maybe even a little …
Care, Mutuality and Fraternity #5: So Utterly Alone Read More »
In this poem, Catharine writes about how ‘educational’ materials – even as seemingly innocuous as grammar rules of opposites – often establish and reinforce binaries and hierarchies for children. Compounded by pedagogic practice that is unwilling to examine its rules and binaries, this leaves young people who are uncomfortable with the hierarchies, and whose lived …
Care, Mutuality and Fraternity #4: Opposites by Catharine Ananova Read More »
In this poem, Swastika writes about how educational and professional spaces imagine people’s personal/private selves and academic/professional selves as completely distinct, and without influence on one another. Professional and academic success is often privileged at the cost of personal physical and mental wellbeing – and is a sign of the absence of a culture of …
As Oscar Wilde had said, “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to it.” This piece is our attempt to do away with our temptation of writing (and getting published) a piece about …
A college degree is not a sign of a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life. A Monk’s Reflection, Reverend Edward A. Malloy In a 2017 survey conducted by the American College Health Association, more than 60% of nearly 28, 000 students on 51 campuses said that they had felt “very …
Care, Mutuality and Fraternity #1: Teachers’ Lessons by Palashi Das Read More »
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