Author Archives: Jess - Marymount Manhattan


“LOL” Is Not A Grade (And We’re Not Facebook Friends, Either)

The picture you have just witnessed is not a reenactment. It’s an actual shot, taken by my equally-disturbed friend, of a comment made by a professor on an assignment of mine. …Excuse me?
But the trauma doesn’t end there.
I obviously set the picture as my default on Facebook, and then two days later received a friend [...]

Four Fatal School Shootings in One Week–Why?

February 8th: Female student shoots two fellow students to death before ultimately killing herself at Louisiana Technical College in Baton Rouge.
February 11th: 17-year-old student shoots and critically wounds a fellow student during high school gym period in Memphis, TN.
February 12th: 14-year-old boy shoots a classmate, 15, at junior high school in Oxnard, [...]