Some girls, of course, can be both popular and nice. But niceness involves treating others as equals […]
No matter who initiated these activities, the good boys in each chapter didn't stop them from happening. Objectification of women and tolerance of racism are massive problems in fraternity culture at...
When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency...
He comes in entirely as an outsider. He lets his mind wander. He’s not endangering his academic position because he doesn’t have one, and he can take those risks,
A St. Louis oncology nurse quoted Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl to States News Service in 2012: ‘What is to give light must endure burning.’ I think people who care for others und...
Straight white males need supportive communities, too.
He could be disciplined when he wanted to be.
Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.
The human brain takes in information from other people and incorporates it with the information coming from its own senses, neuroscientist Gregory Berns has written. Many times, the group's opinion tr...
Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit.
In the midst of a crowd, an individual's layers of restraint peel away, revealing potentially barbaric instincts and a susceptibility to a crowd contagion.
If schools celebrated student scientists the same way they celebrate student athletes, more students would be encouraged to pursue the subject. Instead, science is considered nerdy because schools hel...
I love the free entertainment that patients provide. People say and do the most ridiculous things, and I’ve got a front row seat to the absurdity. —A Colorado travel nurse
What made Einstein special was his impertinence, his nonconformity, and his distaste for dogma. Einstein’s genius reminds us that a society’s competitive advantage comes not from teaching the multipli...
Nonconformists aren't just going against the grain; they're going against the brain. Either their brains aren't taking the easy way out to begin with, or in standing apart from their peers, these stud...
Nobody’s listening to me, he thought, story of my life.
No student should be encouraged -- by anyone -- to change himself until he's normal, a term that says everything and means nothing.
In 1984, when the legal drinking age was raised to 21, underage students moved their partying from bars to private houses, which changed the Greek experience profoundly. Now fraternities had dispropor...
Exclusion is common behavior. But that doesn’t make it unchangeable. And that doesn’t mean that anything is wrong with the cafeteria fringe.
Conformity is a mask behind which students can hide their identity or the fact that they haven't yet figured out their identity.