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Oakley’s arrest touches on key societal conflict


This semester, I’m taking a communication course titled “Sports and Social Change.” No, it’s not an “easy A.” People are always wrongly mislabeling the communication major as the token student-athlete major, which in itself is pretty unfair. As the spring semester has continued, this class exposed me to concepts within the realm of society and […]

Competitive arena needs room for emotion


It’s been popular to hate the Miami Heat this year. The championship parade before they even played a game and their early season struggles made them easy targets for critics from the beginning. So when Heat players cried in the locker room after a regular season loss to the Chicago Bulls on Sunday, fans and […]