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Social Issues

Swanson: Stop Calling Trump a White Supremacist, It’s Not Helping

Swanson: Stop Calling Trump a White Supremacist, It’s Not Helping

By Gavin Swanson, Opinion Writer August 30, 2017

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past month, you've heard about what happened in Charlottesville, VA on the night of August 11. Protesters armed with tiki torches and clad in polo shirts...

Williams: We Should Decriminalize All Drugs in the U.S.

Williams: We Should Decriminalize All Drugs in the U.S.

By Brook Williams August 29, 2017

Many people are highly supportive of legalizing marijuana. It is a topic highly stressed on college campuses, and if all teachers and professors aren’t for the legalization by now, it shouldn't take...

Williams: “To the Bone” Tells Truth of Anorexic Lifestyle

By Brook Williams August 27, 2017

The Netflix movie “To the Bone” reveals the realities behind eating disorders. Its light hearted attitude, dark humor and idiosyncratic characters make this film unique. Some say it’s brutally honest....

The crowd claps during the Solidarity Rally against racism at Washington Square Park in Salt Lake City, Utah on Monday, Aug. 14, 2017. (Rishi Deka | Daily Utah Chronicle)

Keep White Nationalism Out of the U

By Connor Richards August 25, 2017

An editorial from the opinion desk. They didn’t even wear cloaks. No masks, no capes, no concealment of identity. Although they hold the same torches and share the same degenerate, primitive ideology...

Books on Phiulosophy inside the stacks of the J. Willard Marriott  Library on the University of Utah Campus, Salt Lake City, UT on Thursday, July 13, 2017

(Photo by Adam Fondren | Daily Utah Chronicle)

An Existentialist’s Guide to Your First Year of College

By Connor Richards August 19, 2017

There you are, sitting on the first day of your first class ever in college. It might be Gen. Chem I, Intermediate Writing, Survey of Jazz, Analysis of Argument, Philosophy and Human Nature or a dreaded...

James Alex Fields Jr., left, marches in a white nationalist rally on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 wearing apparel and holding a shield associated with the American fascism group Vanguard America. Fields is charged with driving a car into a group of counterprotesters, killing one and injuring 19.

Richards: Reveal Could Show Link Between Charlottesville Driver, Racist Posters on U Campus

By Connor Richards August 19, 2017

It is a troubling look for the University of Utah, and Utah as a whole. James Alex Fields Jr., 20, marched on Saturday afternoon with hundreds of white nationalists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville,...

Transgender Discrimination in the Military is a Crime

Transgender Discrimination in the Military is a Crime

By Alisa Patience July 30, 2017

The best thing about America is that we have the freedom to do nearly anything we want, as long as we pay our taxes. If we want to go to college and become successful business people, we can. If we want...

A tale of two parties: why Utahns should join forces for sex education

By Kamryn Broschinsky July 29, 2017

Politics is a contact sport, and you can criticize anyone who voluntarily enters the arena. But when it comes to sex education, it’s time for Utahns to call a timeout, and reevaluate the game plan....

Love Shouldn’t be a Power Struggle

By Alisa Patience July 20, 2017

It has been said that if something isn’t worth fighting for then it isn’t worth having, and this has been especially said about love. After all, where’s the satisfaction in something if it came easily?...

Ag-Gag Ruling is a Moral Victory for Utah

Ag-Gag Ruling is a Moral Victory for Utah

By Connor Richards July 14, 2017

Amy Meyer, a Utah resident and animal rights activist, had heard that struggling cows at a Draper slaughterhouse could be observed while standing from public property. So, Meyer took her cell phone and...