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In the U.S. District Court for the District of Everlasting Winter, plaintiff brings this action for temporary injunctive relief to prevent the defendant from streaming certain shows. For the reasons stated herein, the plaintiff’s motion is hereby denied.

Defendant Netflix Inc. is a California corporation that provides on-demand media to the Americas and parts of Europe through Internet streaming methods. At the time this action was filed, the defendant had more than 30 million subscribers internationally, more than 27 million of them living in all 50 United States.

For as long as newspapers have been in circulation, they have been endorsing political candidates. Although professional newspapers endorse political candidates, it should not translate to the student government platform being endorsed by student organizations.

This week the campus has been bustling with student government campaigns. I would be hard-pressed to remember a walk to class this week that didn’t involve my eyes wandering to the endless posters for candidates or students sporting T-shirts for their chosen student leaders.

Tuesday marked an important holiday, but rather than emphasizing a cause to “celebrate,” it was a day of critical recognition for the gender inequality that persists in our country. It was National Equal Pay Day.

Two Republican legislators in North Carolina drafted a bill to declare a state religion, whereby rendering the Constitution in the southern state as null-and-void. The house speaker blocked the legislation from reaching the House floor, but I was still shocked to read about conservative lawmakers in the South attempting to circumvent the Constitution.

When we are kids we all dream of what we will be in the future. At one point I wanted nothing more than to be a veterinarian. Seeing that I am currently an English major, my plans have obviously changed.

According to a study done by Dr. Fitz, the founder of mymajors.com, 80 percent of college-bound students have yet to choose a major.

Last week, the White House announced that President Barack Obama’s latest budget will be released  Wednesday. The budget includes a conversion to the chained CPI cost-of-living structure for Social Security, whereby reducing benefits would cut $400 billion from health care overall and would slash $200 billion from other essential programs, such as unemployment aid and the U.S. Postal Service.

While navigating my way through the early years in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the abundance of references to various media “golden ages” has made me quite uncomfortable.

The phrase itself is necessarily nostalgic; those who use it cheapen artwork that is made outside of that age. Ultimately, the golden ages that critics and academics so often reference are just the periods of time when those media were produced without the cluttered voices of minorities or women by rich white men.

With the semester winding down and workload cranking up, many of us hardly need a reminder about stress. But although stress may at times be a necessary evil, it does not have to be a crushing inevitability. What’s more, our reaction to it matters. National Stress Awareness Month provides an important opportunity to put a check on our life stressors and hone our techniques for managing them.

Last week, the Maryland General Assembly passed House Bill 396, which seeks to stem “cyberbullying” by criminalizing certain behavior and annoyances. The bill, Grace’s Law, honors the tragic death of Grace McComas, a 15-year-old girl who committed suicide after being harassed by a neighbor via social media. The passage of this bill is a victory for politicians who are seizing on the omnipresent topic of cyberbullying.

As the Minnesota Twins took the field for their coldest opening day, I was reminded of a recent comment from one of my college’s most distinguished professors.

“Global warming forecasts,” said Stanford’s Nobel physicist Robert Laughlin, “have the difficulty that one can’t find much actual global warming in present day weather observations.”