YARC (Youth Against Rape Culture) has a mission: to educate people about injustice toward women in Free State and in the general world and how to fix these problems.
Senior Becca Moran started the club...
When junior Becca Moran started hearing and seeing the rampant effects of rape culture, she and her friends decided to do something about it. Moran’s brainchild helped create Youth Against Rape Culture...
Beyonce’s remixed “Crazy in Love” plays in the background of the “50 Shades of Grey” trailer, infused with the same tension as a rubber band.
I wish the actual “50 Shades of Grey” movie...
When senior Kayla Clark began writing the constitution for Free State’s Young Feminists’ Club, she remembered the girl in her American Literature class. Caught in an unplanned speech for gender equality,...
As sophomore Diallo Jackson walked down the hall to the office with a pass from assistant principal Keith Jones in his hand, Jackson worried he might be in trouble.
Before winter break, Jackson and...
When freshman Aidan Dietz entered their seventh hour English 9 classroom on the first day of second semester, they were met with confused stares from their classmates.
“At first people were looking...
Maddie Birchfield: I am a feminist and a humanist. For some reason, the idea has risen that one can’t be both. This is due to the muddling of the meaning of the word “feminism.”
I am a feminist...
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Lately in pop culture, there seems to be an increase in controversy about drug related innuendos and sexual references, but it has taken a leap for the worse.
One of the most popular...
![At the beginning of the semester, the administration divided two freshman English classes into three single-gender classes. In January, the ACLU questioned the change, and the classes were promptly rearranged to be coeducational. "It [was] kind of different, I know that, but it [was] fun because it [was] with my friends and everything," freshman Tannner Cobb said.](https://www.fsfreepressonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/9824-900x468.jpg)
