By Libby Beach Drinking happens on Denison’s campus. Binge drinking culture, although obviously not new to Denison, has taken a new form with the rise of social media and the iPhone. Where drinking culture could once be hidden on a hill, it is now capturable on video and ready to be immortalized in the form…
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Changing Majors: The Law of Unintended Consequences
By Paul A. Djupe There’s this old show called Felicity that I really liked back in the day. Felicity applied to NYU on a lark to chase a boy. That’s ridiculous, obviously, but she quickly moved past that hiccup in cognition and took advantage of all that college had to offer. The reason I mention…
Denison Strives for Equality, So Are There Gender Gaps Here?
By Lauren Somers In my Queer theory class with Dr. Nekola this past fall, we discussed the politics of difference. How people are different, how differences come about and affect minorities, and where these differences may be accepted or rejected. These differences sometimes bring about gaps in social hierarchy, gaps in participation, gaps in your…
Risk, Gender, and Public Engagement Gaps
By Paul A. Djupe [Part 1 in a forthcoming series] While watching the crowds in Washington DC and around the world at the Women’s March that dwarfed the thin inauguration crowd on Friday, it reminded me of a puzzle that my senior seminar and I found in the fall of 2015. We asked Denison students…
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