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The Pressure: Race & Sex

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As a black man, I can't be abstinent. Well, at least it seems that way. There is pressure to have sex. When I turn on music to get me through the day or get me from class to class, that fresh R&B crooner or hip-hop heavyweight — who looks like me or sounds like me or dresses like me — seemingly takes every opportunity to lace their lyrics with sexual connotations and … [Read more...] about The Pressure: Race & Sex

The Case against Abstinence

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I still have it, my signed piece of paper pledging my pure body to God and my future husband. I even still have a brick — yes, a five-pound burnt-red brick — that reads ”Promise Kept” with a sloppy signature of an 11-year-old accompanying it. However, neither of those items represents anything more than a wall decoration and door weight now. Christian practices focus on … [Read more...] about The Case against Abstinence

TOP 5 STORIES (December 10, 2007)

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U.S. — Possible link in series of Colorado shootings Arvada police said Sunday they have "reason to believe" that deadly attacks at two religious institutions 70 miles apart that left five dead and six injured are probably linked. http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_7678737 Politics — Oprah and Obama draw record crowds Even before Oprah Winfrey had left the building … [Read more...] about TOP 5 STORIES (December 10, 2007)

Special to the Graphic

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CHRISTINA LITTLEFIELDFormer Graphic Editor It’s been ten years since I first stepped into the Graphic’s decrepit trailers in July 1997. A senior in high school, I was in the last class of students to fall in love with the paper and with Pepperdine through a journalism summer camp established by then adviser Dr. Michael Jordan. Camp gave me my first real whiff of what it meant … [Read more...] about Special to the Graphic