This is my last little plug, and I would really appreciate it if ALL of you helped out (and I can go on the website to check if you did!) For the last three years, our psychology club/psi chi chapter here on campus has participated in a Big Brothers Big Sisters fundraiser (i don't know if its a nati...

Zoe Lewis is a well-regarded English playwright whose Touched: the Play opens this week in London. I can’t speak for the play, but can speak about her risible op-ed in yesterday’s Times of London: Madonna syndrome: I should have ditched feminism for love, children and baking. The title o...

About 15% of our students at Pasadena City College are of Armenian descent; Pasadena is part of the axis of the great Armenian Diaspora centered in nearby Glendale. Indeed, one of the periodic and cheerful debates we have ’round here is whether to classify Armenians as “white” or s...

Another issue that came up in Saturday’s WAM session on “breaking the hold of the Old Boys Club” was that of mentoring. Ann Friedman brought up the often-problematic, often-rewarding experience of being mentored by older men. In her field, journalism, the majority of senior writers...