Thank you, Mary Jane

Always the hot topic during election season; who is the next state to legalize medicinal or recreational marijuana? Study after study shows it has many health benefits from dealing with rheumatoid arthritis and seizures, to helping veterans with PTSD or stopping cancer from spreading completely. While all this has very lengthy scientific research behind it, many […]

Student Stress Levels and Acts of Violence Within Schools

One of the overlying questions of our EDU275 class at Colorado State University, is “what is the purpose of education?” On a superficial level, one could say it is to better society. But is is really bettering society when America is averaging one school shooting per week since 2013? The most recent one happened May […]

Education: The Lack of a Basic Right

Many issues behind education are being brought to light today in regards to race, uniformity of curriculum, and funding of higher education. Through this group project we look into an important aspect of the Lobato V Colorado case. Lobato V Colorado was a case that took place here recently, it was heard by the Supreme […]

Race… Does it segregate us?

In class today we had an interesting conversation about the word “race”. Merriam-Webster defines race as “a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits.” I’d beg to disagree. The only thing that makes “a race” a race, is the skin color. That is the only physical trait. There is not multiple traits at […]