Tag: diversity
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Don’t Hate the Player
Last Thursday marked the beginning of football season for the UCO Bronchos. #RollChos I enjoyed the game per the usual: wearing school colors, talking to friends, cheering for the team and taking Snap Chats. I pay less attention to the actual content of most sports than I care to admit, but rather find myself engulfed…
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Though I’m Wrong, I Write
I think critically, I share my thoughts and I grow. I better utilize my strengths and I am more aware of my weaknesses. I enjoy studying cultural competency and the importance of diversity. Though I condemned echo-chambers in my last post, I realize that I may reside in an echo chamber myself. How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck…
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The Restrictions of Religion
I hail from Muskogee, Oklahoma- the county seat with a population of around 30,000 kind, traditional and somewhat conformist individuals. I had 114 in my graduating class. Of these 114 people there was little religious/ spiritual variety. Last weekend in a conversation with my mom, we discussed how most students and staff from my high…
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Lessons in Leadership
“Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.” Tom Peters. Anyone can manage a group’s output without much skill or effort, but leading a group and enhancing the strength of each individual is rare/. Leadership is not stagnant, but adaptive to the needs of a situation and a group. For example, even if you make the world’s best…
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According to the Academy, Kalen & Drew
Without music life would be a mistake. -Friedrich Nietzsche The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences is best known for the GRAMMY Awards. Each year the Recording Academy’s voting membership decides what artists and producers will be considered for and/or awarded a GRAMMY. Each voting member can vote in up to 15 categories, but the voting…
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“I am whatever I say I am”
“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.” – Alan Watts It’s easy, but kind of pointless. My name is Kalen. I’m majoring in Strategic Communications. I like to read and write. I’m graduating next May. I think I’m pretty funny. I love to drink coffee and eat dessert. I have…
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microaggressions – BIG SCREEN
Get Out was the number one in America last weekend. Written by comedian Jordan Peele, Get Out uses satire to discuss racism and its subsequent prejudices and microagressions. This film combines fiction and reality to make the topic of race more palatable/ comfortable. Microaggressions are a common phenomenon. They plague the media, relationships and conversations. Microaggressions: the everyday…
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There is room
“Sometimes you have two children born at the same time; one is stillborn but the other one alive and healthy because the dead one gave the other a life transfusion in the womb and in essence sacrificed itself” Edwidge Danticat’s. Danticat likens discrimination, and the subsequent prejudice and oppression, caused by a perceived scarcity of…
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Give Me Gemeinschaft, or Give Me Greatness
gemeinschaft [German guh–mahyn-shahf-tuh n] Sociology. a society or group characterized chiefly by a strong sense of common identity, close personal relationships, and an attachment to traditional and sentimental concerns. We know the dangers of groupthink, the atrocities that occur, the prejudices it produces, the wars it wages and the inclusion it inhibits. Groupthink can be comfortable, it’s familiar and builds a sense of community at the expense of the exclusion of diversity. “Diversity, the act of thinking independently together.” …
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