School should seem like the second safest place besides home, but as we have seen in numerous stories of school shootings and other forms of school violence, it's losing its spot in that category quickly....

As a young girl I imagined that toward the end of my life I would be married with children and maybe a few grandchildren. I had no idea what marriage entailed; all I knew was that I had to get married...

Diseases that have long been under control have seen a vast outbreak across the U.S. as an anti-vaccine phenomenon has allowed these once tamed diseases to make a roaring comeback.Although vaccination...

I have come to believe that technology distances us away from ourselves; we use technology to get away from reality because we don't know how to be alone. We browse through the Internet when we're sitting...

I believe teens have too high of expectations for what their bodies should look like. Today in commercials and every magazine people are digitally altered. Their stomach and hips are made smaller, their...

Rational self-interest is key in the field of economics, being a major force in the establishment of its philosophical foundations. Along with economics, this term has influenced the preponderance of my...

Lawmakers in Mississippi are the first to approve a bill that allows citizens and businesses to challenge laws that conflict with their religious beliefs, while opponents fear that it would permit discrimination...

Several prominent Catholic leaders have made a name for themselves in recent months for extravagant spending and lavish lifestyles. Last October, the Vatican suspended the duties of one German bishop,...

The day-to-day occurrences in the life of a university president sometimes resemble a triage unit. Numerous issues find their way to my office daily. Some require immediate care. Others get transferred...

With Gov. Pat Quinn's recent college trek across Illinois to share his proposal of a $50 million increase to the Monetary Aid Program (MAP) grant, the somewhat impossible task of financing college tuition...

I don't like orange juice like I once did. Even typing the words brings me back to a time where I would rather not be. It's what I drank for two years while visiting my once perfectly healthy brother,...

In November of 2011, I stood on a balcony in downtown Cairo with friends as demonstrators marched through the streets below. They chanted, we cheered - and in the wake of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's...