If a teenager observes a schoolmate and standout athlete consuming alcohol at a party the night before a big game, should he intervene? If a girl knows a friend is digitally harassing a third party, posting nasty messages on social networking sites, should she report it? Those were among the questions directed to 100 local …
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Videos of people taking the ice bucket challenge are everywhere on social media, but Madusha Erandi, 21, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Sri Lanka, asks whether other causes aren’t equally deserving of the awareness and money being raised. As all of us know by now that the Ice Bucket challenge has been viral on social media and …
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Practicing what you preach is an essential component of building trust, writes Bernard Lim, 20, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Singapore, who argues in favour of challenging those who fall short of that standard. Do you have ‘skin in the game’? Ayn Rand, Noam Chomsky, Jérôme Cahuzac, interestingly, do not have that. ‘Skin in the game’ …
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A unique workshop took science, technology and ethics to a teen audience in Nigeria. Timi Olagunju, 29, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Lagos in Nigeria, was one of the presenters in the program promoting education and leadership. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance”, and education is the ability to learn, unlearn, …
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Communication has grown in speed and volume as technology advances, but Nnadozie Onyekuru, 27, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Nigeria, now studying in the USA, reflects on the importance of civility and ethics in true dialogue. “Thought is occupied mostly with finding what is true while impulse pushes towards action. We ought to take care, therefore, that …
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