In Mark Naida’s article “Foreign language majors don’t need to be fluent at graduation,” he provides the underrepresented perspective of a language major who has studied for years, yet lacks speaking fluency and has not spent time abroad. I appreciated that he addressed the “Does that mean you’re fluent?” question often asked of language majors,...
Reviews portrayed David Leitch’s “Atomic Blonde” as the “female James Bond” flick of the summer — a film in which audiences can cheer on Charlize Theron as she cuts down every bad guy in her way. Playing a British spy sent on a mission to East Berlin, Theron stepped into her role of Lorraine Broughton...
Days like 9/11 wakes us up. When the ground we’ve been walking on or building on or taking for granted shifts underneath us and we snap out of our routine day-to-day experiences, we have to stare at something we don’t want to. And we may not live to see another 9/11 in our lifetimes, but...
As I walked into the Jackson medical cannabis dispensary last weekend, I noticed behind me an old, frail woman. Her hands were shaking, and her voice was filled with tears. “The OxyContin doesn’t take away the pain,” I heard her say to the attendant. She asked the cashier for a few grams of cannabis and...
Over the last four years, I have often been forced to contend with two comments concerning my college majors. After I reveal that I study French and English, people inevitably make some dismissive comment about how I will go into teaching and then they ask if I am fluent in French. Although the first supposition...