Art by Peau Porotesano Dear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., It’s been about 48 years since you’ve gone, and the world is a much different place than you left it. We’ve moved forward, no doubt, but in all honesty, I am not content. There is much more to be done. Racially charged crimes are still prevalent, as exemplified by occurrences like the church shooting in … [Read more...] about A Letter to MLK
Perspectives
So You Didn’t Win the Powerball — Now What?
Art by Christine Nelson Each time a national lottery prize reaches astronomical heights, a level of cold, hard cash that the vast majority of Americans will never attain — at least overnight, anyways — we seem to dream quite a bit more than we typically do. Newscasters on stations everywhere ask people on the street, “What would you do with the jackpot?” and invariably, … [Read more...] about So You Didn’t Win the Powerball — Now What?
Don’t Spend on Lotto Tickets
Art by Christine Nelson I honestly never had an interest in any sort of lottery participation until I had a group of six or seven college students storm my couch the night that the numbers were to be announced. They’d all purchased between one and seven lotto tickets, holding onto the gleaming shred of hope that maybe, just maybe, it would be them. This first experience … [Read more...] about Don’t Spend on Lotto Tickets
New Year’s Resolutions Allow Weakness
Art by Peau Porotesano Resolutions today are often the butt of a slew of jokes. On a certain level, it makes sense. It's less than a month into January, and according to the numbers from the Statistic Brain Research Institute's "New Years Resolution Statistics," only about 64 percent of individuals will keep their resolutions for longer than a month, and that number only … [Read more...] about New Year’s Resolutions Allow Weakness
Re-evaluate Your Millennial Misconceptions
Art by Peau Porotesano It's the most notorious buzzword of the past decade, the moniker of a generation that is simultaneously characterized as startlingly innovative and impossibly overindulged: Millennials. Maybe you've heard of them? As the generation born between the early 1980s and 2000s, Millennials make up an overwhelming majority of Pepperdine's student … [Read more...] about Re-evaluate Your Millennial Misconceptions