Issues

Pissed girl scout calls for cookie embargo

The question of whether to reach into your pocket

Providing aid while simply respecting cultures

Dodging good deeds due to female-dominated perceptions

For Catholics, charity is based on love. For Protestants, it is an urge that comes from within. For Jews, it is the need to be righteous. For Muslims, it is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, a compulsory act. For Buddhists, it cleanses you of personal greed. In today’s secularized society, which one of these definitions fits best? Or do none of them? What is motivating people today to give back to the community?

The founder of DC Central Kitchen and the author of Begging for Change talks about shortening the food line as you serve it. “What interests me is not the survival of the nonprofit sector, but the destruction of the problems that predicate the need for the nonprofit.”

I’m Ned, 24, single, white male. I’m a totally chill, fit and an all around good guy who’s just looking for a dude that I can pound Keystones with, watch Shawshank and generally bro out.

Vipera University’s Anaconda Adoption Club started with honorable intentions. Unlike more mainstream organizations that symbolically adopt manatees or parts of the rainforest, the students in the Anaconda Adoption Club focused on what they believe to be a much “cooler” animal.

With the Academy Award season just behind us, it is clear which picture has swept the hearts of America. To the dismay of many teen super fans, I’m not referring to the final installment of the Harry Potter franchise. Rather, the film that has all the critics, including this one, talking is Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist, starring French actor, Jean Dujardin and Argentinian-French actress Berenice Bejo.

Poverty, alcoholism, and parental negligence; sounds more like the plot of a depressing lifetime movie than of Showtime’s latest breakout dramedy. On TV’s Shameless, the Gallagher family accepts these issues as simply the way things are. And they do so with good humor.