Tag Archive for: pop culture

Students have potential to add substance


As college students, we have a tendency to get bored. Really bored. But you can’t blame us — our society today suffers from a hyperactive attention span, which has become problematic to say the least. Just take a look at the present state of popular culture. Audiences fixate on the latest thing in entertainment one […]

Textual encounters not without consequence


In recent months, we’ve witnessed how a new form of communication — “sexting” — can lead to a lot of trouble. Just ask Tiger Woods, whose sexually charged cell phone chat with a mistress led to a sketchy police report, handfuls of dropped endorsements and months of tabloid turmoil. Ouch. A trend that’s spreading faster […]