In sixth grade, I remember reading Jay Asher’s original 288-page novel and explaining to my friends the basic premise of the story. I remember being asked, “Why would you ever read a book as disturbing...

As the popularity of the new Netflix original series “13 Reasons Why” has reached a fever pitch, feedback and opinions have been widespread. Personally, as a viewer, I was captivated and immediately...

Last Semester, a boy approached a lunch table my friend and I had occupied first and stared at us for a minute while his friends urged him on to “Tell it like it is” and then very rudely asked us if...

I will never forget stepping off the bus on Dec. 3, 2009, to find my mother waiting for me, her eyes sorrowful and her face tearstained. “Something bad has happened,” she said. My mind raced. Had...

"I’m gonna murder this girl Ellie Boyer for what she did.” Last school year, such a comment joined hundreds of other posts that streaked the Twitter pages of her classmates. Junior Ellie Boyer’s...