As I walked to the cafeteria last week, I realized that I was wearing over $400 worth of clothes and accessories. You read that right: $400. I was not even wearing a coat or boots, which can be rather expensive. I was just wearing a shirt, cardigan, jeans, moccasins and […]

Every day, people all over the country give their input on hot topics, including world religion, homosexuality, abortion, evolution, etc. Many times, a person who gives negative input on any of these issues is quoted as using what is now known as “hate speech” and is labeled as intolerant. According […]

Hello, I am Sidney Van Wyk, Editor-in-Chief of the Threefold Advocate, and I would like to address the column “Rethink Yoga” in Issue 18 of our publication. The Opinion/Editorial section of our paper is a place for our readership to voice their opinion on various topics and respond to articles […]

From Russia with love. That is essentially how Russian President Vladimir Putin has characterized what is an invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces last week. The majority of the world views the recent unrest in Ukraine as a democratic revolution deposing a corrupt president in an attempt to pull Ukraine […]

We are cultural beings. We learn what is acceptable from those around us, and that becomes our unconscious reality. When something is said often enough it becomes true for us, regardless of its ultimate reality. My devotional this morning highlighted the fact that when the Israelites were in Egypt they […]

I chose journalism on a whim. My high school, though one of the larger ones in the state of Oklahoma, did not have a newspaper. If I was awake and not busy studying, I would sometimes catch the headlines of the local news at 10 p.m. But really my only […]

When I look into a fitting room mirror, I judge myself. It does not matter if I am happy or angry at what my reflection shows and whether my new clothes look good; either way, I am looking at and criticizing my body. When the stores’ advertisements show very thin, […]

• Baptism by immersion. • Skinny-dipping. Let’s face it: J. Alvin is going to try and pull this one off, and soon. • Food coloring or water dye, such as the green dye they use in the rivers in San Antonio during St. Patrick’s Day. • Ice-sculptures. As we all […]

Barbie recently appeared on the 50th Anniversary cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition. Clad in a black and white one-piece, the children’s toy makes a statement: Barbie is sexy, Barbie is beautiful, Barbie is wanted by men. And little girls who play with the plastic doll should aspire to one […]

I’m a nontraditional student, so I’m a good 10 years older than most of my peers on campus. I’ve been around long enough now to see trends come and go. I lived through the decade of spandex, pump up Nikes, MC Hammer and scratch ‘n sniff stickers. I remember colored […]