Lindsay Boggs

Airports tend to be a hodge-podge of cultures, a cacophonous mishmash of screaming babies, and enraged travelers with lost baggage. But it’s also a crossroads between cultures, a birthplace of ideas and foreign relations. For some, it’s a limbo between countries—in the area before passport control you are no longer in your own country but you are not yet officially in another. People from all over the globe flow through these terminals, making airports the perfect place for advertisements. Companies have the opportunity to influence the opinions of the entire world.Read more...

Twenty-three years is no small change when it comes to war. In Northern Uganda, that’s how long the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army has been terrorizing the population. In that time, almost 30,000 children have been abducted by the LRA, which over the years have formed what is believed to be ninety percent of the militia’s forces. These children are forced to be soldiers and to commit atrocities such as murder, rape, and mutilation. To protect the people of Northern Uganda, the government forced them to move into camps for protection.Read more...

Ignorance is bliss, or so they say. I’m inclined to disagree, particularly when it comes to politics. Take, for instance, Katy Abrams, the Pennsylvania mom who protested healthcare reform at a Town Hall Meeting in August, claiming that the United States was turning into a socialist country. Funny how in her interview with Chris Matthews, she wasn’t willing to say she wouldn’t want her parents on Medicare, which, as a single-payer government-funded system, is the very thing President Obama said that spurred her into political action (note: Obama never said this.Read more...

I set out at the beginning of this year with a desire to contribute something to this University besides a GPA statistic and tuition fees. My first few months, I floundered about, trying to find my place here—and then it finally happened one night in November. A team of representatives of To Write Love On Her Arms, a nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people who struggle with such issues as depression, self-injury, addiction, and suicide, came to discuss their mission and goals.Read more...