The Wake

“You sniffing my boxers dude?” “Dude! Get this…” “ Dude! That’s sick…” “Dude, like, I know what you’re saying…” “Hell yeah, Dude…” This completes the interacting range of “dude” usage, as presented by Social Anthropologist Scott Kiesling. According to his work, the usage of ‘dude’ chiefly indexes a social stance of “cool solidarity” to one’s peers, an identity that Kiesling argues taps into the hegemonic hold that non-intimate heterosexual “nonconformity” has upon masculine identities within …

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I won’t trouble you with reductive binaries (good, bad, rich, poor) regarding the contentious nature of our current economic situation. As far as I can tell, with my head buried in books and hands juggling student loan, scholarship and study abroad applications, the so-called crisis is turning out to be whatever we make it.

In the course of the last two weeks, I have been interviewing concerned students and professors and reading through our …

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