If you feel the ground rumbling beneath you, don’t worry. That is just the stampede of privileged white ladies across the globe purposefully marching to their kitchen cabinets and reaching for the Braggs apple cider vinegar because, according to the New York Post, heroin chic is back.
The Amex is considered by many to be the only place to cure your coffee fix and your hunger desperation on campus. Yet there are several somewhat hidden spots in three of the five AUP buildings that will quickly become your best friend during exam season, late night study sessions, or between classes.
Since the events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, nothing seems to turn more heads in international affairs than talk of a nuclear threat. Something Russian President Vladimir Putin so aptly demonstrated through his recent threats to employ a nuclear weapon in his war on Ukraine. And while many across the globe stir, their anticipative gaze fixed on the embattled nation, it is all too easy to allow the battle cries and explosions in Ukraine to drown out a similarly dire and dangerous situation: the increasingly unstable nuclear crisis unfolding with Iran.
Trigger Warning: Suicide
Dearest reader, if you happen to be someone who is connected to the world through social media (or frankly, just a living human being in the year 2023), it's more than likely that you know of, or for that matter actively use, TikTok.
The Olympic Games are coming to Paris in Summer 2024. The city of Paris, which includes a population of 2.1 million, a greater region of 12 million, and an average influx of 50 million tourists throughout the summer months, is not infrastructurally prepared to accommodate the expected arrival of 1.7-2.3 million tourists, players, and business associated with the global spectacle. But what does this mean for AUP students?
From a young age, students are taught that in the United States it is unethical to plagiarize and that in some cases it’s even illegal. However, in the fashion industry everything seems to be fair game.
Once upon a time, GIFs were on the cutting-edge of media. An acronym for, "graphics interchange format," in their early forms they were crucial to the creation of websites all throughout the internet, and even throughout the last decade little repeated animations seem to have flooded through online forums and text chains among friends.
But now there's a question as to whether or not they're fading away as a trendy artifact of the early internet, or if they'll stick around for years to come.
Data or you didn’t do it is a phenomenon that is increasingly permeating our lives. Society is constantly looking for ways to explain the world through numbers by collecting data to determine ‘truth’ or ‘value’. And I’m one of the millions who have bought into self-knowledge through numbers.
What does it mean to come of age? Traditionally, coming of age is the shift from childhood to adulthood, which happens at different ages in different cultures. For example, in the Jewish community, 13 is the year one leaves childhood behind marked by the bar/bat mitzvah, for the Mexican community it is 15 for girls having their quinceañera, and for Americans it can be 16 linked to their driver's license or 18 when they become a legal adult.
