Jawhari: Issues exist with modern immigration reform
Sarah Jawhari, Columnist
February 24, 2017
Unless you are of Native American descent, you are a descendant of someone who did not originally inhabit the area that we now consider to be our nation. It seems this is a difficult truth to accept for conservative Americans touting immigration reform. The entitlement is not surprising, though it is...
Jawhari: Trump isn’t the end of the world, just U.S exceptionalism
Sarah Jawhari, Columnist
February 10, 2017
The United States has forfeited its rank as leader of the free world. It is not incongruous to propose that we may no longer have a seat in the entire free empire. This is not a sneaking suspicion or defamatory criticism. Unfortunately, it is a bipartisan fact, though that word does not hold much cr...
Jawhari: Amid condemnation, women’s march a start
Sarah Jawhari, Columnist
January 27, 2017
On Jan. 21, 2017—one day after the inauguration of Donald Trump—millions of people worldwide participated in the Women’s March on Washington. The title is no misnomer. Though the majority of participants were women, they were joined by men, teens of all genders, young children in strollers ...
Jawhari: The fake news effect
Sarah Jawhari, Columnist
December 9, 2016
Fake news has been in the real news frequently lately—and for good reason. Though it seems counterintuitive to chastise fake news networks on legitimate platforms devoid of their readership, such as The New York Times or The Washington Post, national alert comes with warranted concern. Fake news is ...
Jawhari: Damsels Be Damned
Sarah Jawhari, Columnist
October 14, 2016
This month, women in hijabs adorned the covers of both Playboy and Women’s Running magazines. Backlash to the former publication manifested itself in the hashtag #hoejabi as supportive congrats were met with condemnation and shaming. Playboy’s feature was journalist Noor Tagouri, fully-clothed, sp...
Jawhari: A case for anti-social media
Sarah Jawhari, Columnist
September 23, 2016
I read my old writing, cringing and rewording in my head, the vantage point of a more mature reader letting me judge the “me” that used a trite metaphor or botched syntax. Somehow a few lines are good. Really good. They stand the test of time for their insight and innovation. It may be that they...
Jawhari: Floss, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs
Sarah Jawhari, Columnist
August 20, 2016
Patients lie. Some more than others. In 2008 a survey found that four in 10 patients stretched the truth when in the dental chair. Patients lie because they do not want to be judged, lectured or perceived as unhealthy—a reprehensible sin in our magazine world of sleek models with perfect teeth. I ge...
Jawhari: Who’s your daddy? Apparently, vodka
Sarah Jawhari
February 12, 2016
Fetal alcohol disorders were recently featured in “Vital Signs,” a monthly report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Although the article spurred controversy from readers, representatives defended their published advice. “More than three million U.S. women are at risk...
Jawhari: Sticking it to the man
Sarah Jawhari
October 9, 2015
Carl Djerassi, known as the father of the modern female birth control pill, wrote in the New York Review of Books last year that the invention “separated [sex] from its reproductive consequences.” Several years before the pill was approved for contraceptive use in the United States in 1960, Djerassi...
Sarah Jawhari: It’s a (two) party and no one’s invited
Sarah Jawhari
September 11, 2015
The frenzy hurtling us into the 2016 elections is nauseating to me. I despise politics. I actively choose not to follow it the same way I choose not to listen to the tedious din the radio believes popular. On principle, I disown what the media circus follows, and many people save a headache and a half...
