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Friday, May 25, 2012


Eric Mulligan


Socially conscious men support feminism

I am writing in response to the piece in the Sept. 23 edition of The Phoenix that gave a male perspective on a Feminist Majority meeting (“Feminist fun: I love women, too”, pg. 11). Although I admit t…

A new boy code

A friend of mine recently asserted that the three fundamental instincts of the human male are “eating, fucking and blowing shit up.” A look at men in popular culture would support this assertion. Afte…

Live and let live

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with approximately 5.6 million Americans (almost 3 percent of American adults) serving or having served time in prison, according to …

Taking a break from life in the fast lane: What Swatties miss in search of speed

In the summer of 2004, I traveled with most of McDonogh School’s Concert Choir to Poland and the Czech Republic, touring and singing in cities and buildings the likes of which simply do not exist in A…