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The Eck’s Factor
Matthew Eck
Matthew Eck is a rising junior writing about culturally relevant social issues. His column, “The Eck’s Factor,” typically runs every other Wednesday.
Featured columns
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The Eck’s Factor: Why anti-racism is necessary for white allyship
Through the lens of “Little Fires Everywhere,” white people can refine their allyship as anti-racists.
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The Eck’s Factor: Racial violence prompts discussions about privilege
My privilege and your privilege can both be assets.
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The Eck’s Factor: How Giggle and Zoom reinforce discriminatory gender norms
Zoom University does not allow genderqueer individuals, as well as LGBTQ-identifying people, to sign up. The website is merely a hot spot for cisgender, heterosexual people.
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The Eck’s Factor: Hypercompetitive pre-health academic culture is not conducive to fostering compassionate physicians
To counter the counterintuitive setting of pre-health academic culture, students must start by expanding their perspectives beyond their letter grades.
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The Eck’s Factor: Climate alarmism is, simply put, alarming
This stance encapsulates a common trend today — the rejection of reputable scientific evidence for an outlook that relies on destiny instead.
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The Eck’s Factor: It is time to normalize drug counterculture in society
Like the iconic D.A.R.E. slogan concludes — “E, I will educate me now” — we should indeed follow suit, but from this new angle that gives proper credit to the irrefutable benefits of psychoactive drugs.
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The Eck’s Factor: What to do about the chicken sandwich that divided the US
Just recently, Chick-fil-A announced that it will no longer donate to these anti-LGBT organizations.
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The Eck’s Factor: What Tinder tells us about labels and the modern meet-cute
Our modern idea of romance is a swipe-fest that promotes superficiality and undermines inner beauty, and it only contradicts the prominent trope that love has no labels or boundaries.
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The Eck’s Factor: Romanticizing ‘You’ challenges our current mental health movement
In a recent interview with actress Gina Rodriguez, actor Penn Badgley opened up about his portrayal of protagonist Joe Goldberg and commented on the public response to the show, specifically citing the logline on Lifetime as “How far are you willing to go for love?”