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Justina Huang

Other Things to Worry about Besides Ebola

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If you were a child born in Sierra Leone, there is an 18.2 percent chance that you will not live to blow out five candles on a birthday cake that you most likely do not have access to. That is three to four students in the average class size of 20 students at Pepperdine. If you were born as a woman In Liberia, there would be a one in 24 lifetime chance of you dying in … [Read more...] about Other Things to Worry about Besides Ebola

20 Years Later, ‘Friends’ is Still Relevant

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Sick of New Year’s resolutions you cannot keep? Have no fear, for starting Jan. 1, 2015, all 10 seasons and 236 episodes of Friends will be there for you on Netflix. Something tells me that finishing every episode will seem like a doable goal. The appeal of a show like “Friends” is that it is reliably funny and indulges the imagination in trivial concerns of the characters. … [Read more...] about 20 Years Later, ‘Friends’ is Still Relevant

Democracy is Not a Will of the West

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Photos Courtesy of Ryan Osborn Everything you need to know about what is happening in Hong Kong right now When Britain “returned” Hong Kong back to China on July 1, 1997, a principle of “one country, two systems” was implemented. Hong Kong would not practice China’s socialist system, and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region would maintain its capitalist system for 50 … [Read more...] about Democracy is Not a Will of the West

Let’s Stop Bragging About Lack of Sleep

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We live in a culture that thrives on valuing hard work. This is great! We enjoy trading anecdotes of success stories and how we pulled ourselves up from our bootstraps, and as college students, one of our favorite things to do is to complain about how much we deprive ourselves. If I had an hour for every time I hear about how you got 45 minutes of sleep last night or a grain of … [Read more...] about Let’s Stop Bragging About Lack of Sleep

Change of Conversation

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Someone among us has broken the law, so let us spend time attacking those who released the news, talking about the individual and never doing anything about it. It’s low maintenance involvement, and to a certain degree, condemning the Graphic feels like passive activism. Many of you condemn the Graphic for not showing any empathy in light of this situation. Although I applaud … [Read more...] about Change of Conversation