Ed Observers
Ed Observers
In general, be specific
Why do we generalize so much? It's something called "availability heuristic."
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Knowing what I know now
If I had known in high school what I know now, I wouldn’t have come to this university.
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What’s in a name?
In 1972, women accounted for only about 38 percent of the labor force. Today, they make up closer to 47…
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Park it, UR
I don’t know if I’m simply more aware of instances of ticketing or if it is actually happening more often,…
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Be smart, not tough, on crime
It is deeply ingrained in the rhetoric of politicians across the nation that we must be “tough on crime.” They…
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The red meat question
Are we on the verge of a worldwide spike in vegetarianism? Earlier this week, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s International…
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Hold off on your post-mortem
Decades from now, a student might glance at her course syllabus and see our generation, the early 2000s, listed as…
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The personality cult of Bernie Sanders
It’s 2015, and Eugene V. Debs is either jumping for joy in the afterlife or spinning in his grave. If…
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SA: lift your veil
In the short nine months that I have spent at UR, the operations of the Students’ Association (SA) government have…
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Defend Planned Parenthood
The House of Representatives recently passed a bill to cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood. Predictably, this sparked outrage over…
