Health insurance keeps me alive

I am a 21-year-old student attending the University of Arizona with a pre-existing condition covered under my parents’ health insurance plan. I’m scared. And I’m not alone. I’m scared because like the millions of other people under 26 who are part of their parent’s health insurance plan, I’m unsure whether  I will remain under my parents’…

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Diversity matters, often misunderstood

  Diversity broadens worldliness. It presents itself everyday through social interactions with colleagues, grocery store clerks, even in a 10-second encounter with a stranger in the elevator. The Academy Awards, for example, have historically been high on the agenda for issues of diversity. Last year’s Oscars took a specific social hit for being too white,…

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Faith’s evolving nature: an era of change

How we define faith and how we define being religious today is evolving, changing the paradigm for future generations. Millennials are moving away from moderately conservative religion toward opposite ends on the religious scale; secularism and religious extremism. According to a report produced by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religious & Public Life, Americans…

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