When dissenters challenge the higher education industry to prove the worth of a liberal arts degree, many support the academy by pointing to the “breadth and depth” that students gain at a liberal arts college. The depth, of course, comes from the student’s chosen major or concentration – a student majoring in psychology, for instance,
Author: Alison Pinkerton
In any given room, at any given moment, how many legs are shaking? How many fingers are nervously twirling through long locks of hair? How many nails are tapping, teeth are grinding, tongues are tripping, palms are dampening? Anxiety is pervasive and often unavoidable. Even thousands of years ago, before cognitive-behavioral therapy and Valium, Ovid
Girl A had a great time last night. She and her roommates gathered with their thirty or forty closest friends in Girl A’s tiny apartment just off campus. The walls bore pictures—family shots, scenes from abroad, summer sunsets—as well as Monet’s Water Lilies and Audrey Hepburn movie prints. Girl A and her friends laughed marvelously
Women today don’t have to marry at 15. They aren’t expected to churn butter while nursing eight children, and they certainly aren’t considered the village spinster if they are still single at 30. Without a doubt, the condition of women has changed since Anne Bradstreet married her husband at the tender age of 16. Women