Index Staff Playlist: Nostalgic Songs for the Holidays
This week, Editor Ashley Meza and Writer Jazmine Henning share songs that give them nostaligic feelings about the upcoming holidays and gloomy weather.
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The Historical Journey Under the Mistletoe
Mistletoe. Viscum album, or Phoradendron serotinum depending on where you’re located. This plant, with its plush, green leaves and tiny white berries has gained fame over the centuries for being a popular Christmas time decoration in which people find themselves pressured to kiss under.
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Dear Pacific: Be more transparent with your transfer students
Photo by Jazmine Henning. Pacific isn’t very clear about their transfer student graduation requirements, and thus some students are questioning their decision to attend.
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Dear Pacific, Don’t Forget That We Are Still In A Pandemic
We understand that we missed out on an entire year and a half of our education because of the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean the workload this year needs to overcompensate for everything we missed. Every student I’ve talked to, no matter what year, is having a very overwhelming semester.
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Birds and Boxers; My Ear is Open
Campus leaves have fallen and holiday break is almost upon us. This term, if you’ve been following my columns, you would know that I’ve been writing about topics such as Apology Languages, Sex Toys, and The Sexualization of Halloween Costumes. While these are lighthearted and fun to write, they are missing one thing; the male perspective.
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Dear Pacific, There’s Nothing Else to Mow
The other day, I was taking a nap in my Vandervelden Court apartment to try to alleviate a migraine, when I was awakened by a loud whirring right outside my window. I immediately recognized it as the sound of one of Pacific Landscape Management’s lawnmowers going back and forth from University Avenue to my building–the obnoxious droning growing softer and louder.
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Dear Pacific, What’s Up With the Wifi?
Pacific students pay a technology fee of around $230, per semester. According to US News, in Fall of 2020 Pacific had about 1,758 students enrolled. If every student pays that technology fee to Pacific in their tuition, every semester, the total adds up to $404,304 and $808,608 for the year.
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Halloween Hosiery: The Rise in Sexualized Costumes
Sexy Nurse. Sexy Cat. Sexy Cop. Sexy Green Poop (yes, it’s a thing). Nowadays you can find virtually any costume and its sexy counterpart. When did this start, and why? Halloween, in the traditional sense, is a night to dress up as goblins and ghouls and frighten your neighbors in the search for confectionaries and other such delights.
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A Brief History on Self Pleasure: From Stone to Plastic
The history of dildos is a long one. It all started around 30 thousand years ago when our ancestors sat in their huts carving stone. Historians still debate what these long, rounded stone carvings were for, some believing they were used as tools, some believing they aided in sharpening, I personally believe the latter is a “phallacy” if you will.
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Apology Languages: The Guide to Getting Through It
Almost everyone these days knows what a love language is; if you don’t, it’s the way in which you best express and receive love within your relationships. But while love language is more often talked through, not many of us know our apology language, and it shows.
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Trigger Warning; April, the Month of Survival
April is sexual assault awareness month. For many, this is an emotional rollercoaster of rage, sadness, hopelessness, fear, happiness, strength, and pride. For me, it is a time of numbness and regret, a time of reflection and self-assurance.
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Love and Sex: Red light, Green light
Whether your relationship is in the honeymoon phase or you have seen many moons with your partner by your side, boundaries are important pieces of every relationship that helps all parties separate “me and you” from “us.”
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