The minibus ride home alone from the shopping center was normally safe for 20-year-old Özgecan Aslan, a Turkish student studying psychology at Çağ University in the province of Mersin. On February 11, however, the journey took a dangerous turn. Özgecan was forced to fight for survival as driver Ahmet Suphi Altındöke attacked and attempted to … Read more
The minibus ride home alone from the shopping center was normally safe for 20-year-old Özgecan Aslan, a Turkish student studying psychology at Çağ University in the province of Mersin. On February 11, however, the journey took a dangerous turn. Özgecan was forced to fight for survival as driver Ahmet Suphi Altındöke attacked and attempted to … Read more
“I never really questioned the fact that I was going to go to college. I didn’t really think there were other options.” For Gaby Díaz Quiñones ’17, the idea of attending college was always assumed and influenced a great deal by her mother’s completion of a bachelor’s degree, she told the HPR. Díaz Quiñones’s circumstance—being … Read more
Dawn Neely-Randall has seen many things in her 24 years teaching in Ohio schools, but 2014 was different. With the advent of the Common Core State Standards in Ohio, students had to take a pilot version of the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) test on top of the standard Ohio … Read more
Vian Dakheel Saeed still gets emotional watching the address she gave to the Iraqi parliament in August of 2014. On April 23, she saw her emotional plea broadcast for thousands at the Lincoln Center in New York during the annual Women in the World Summit. The magnified image showed the dark haired woman standing opposite … Read more
Vian Dakheel Saeed still gets emotional watching the address she gave to the Iraqi parliament in August of 2014. On April 23, she saw her emotional plea broadcast for thousands at the Lincoln Center in New York during the annual Women in the World Summit. The magnified image showed the dark haired woman standing opposite … Read more
The decline of smoking and tobacco use in the United States over the last 50 years is well-documented. The fact that smoking in America is at the lowest it has been in the last 50 years has reportedly saved over 8 million lives, and the decreasing use of tobacco products has been heralded as a … Read more
Tomorrow, voters in the United Kingdom will go to the polls to choose the direction of their next government. For the last several months they have been bombarded with political advertisements and 24/7 electoral news coverage, not to mention a vast array of signs, flags, and posters. For party leaders this is the culmination of … Read more
Tomorrow, voters in the United Kingdom will go to the polls to choose the direction of their next government. For the last several months they have been bombarded with political advertisements and 24/7 electoral news coverage, not to mention a vast array of signs, flags, and posters. For party leaders this is the culmination of … Read more
At Eleganza, attendees come to see and to be seen, dressing to the nines and taking pictures to document their attendance. Yet what struck me most when I attended Eleganza on April 25th was not the impressive dancing or models’ clothes but rather the social exclusion and class stratification that comes with attending the show. … Read more