“I remember opening my backpack and all that was in it was two Barbie dolls, four shirts, and six pants. And I remember asking my mom why we couldn’t bring my dollhouse and my Barbie car, and she was like ‘Well hon, we gotta go,’” said Emilia Carmona as she remembered her family’s immigration to the United States when she was four years old.

         Now, a decade later, Carmona is a fourteen-year old girl living in Bloomington, Indiana. She is about to start high school, plays multiple sports, and dreams of attending New York University, but she has never forgotten what it felt like to come to America at a young age.

         “It was all within three days. We had to pack up our lives into suitcases and get out, …
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         Professor Brandon Wallace has spent his life researching the connection between two things he loves: sports and social movements. On the evening of July 8th, Wallace stood in front of a sea of high school students who are taking a journalism course at Indiana University and spoke to them about his life‘s work through teaching, activism, youth camps, and most recently writing a book. His mission was to encourage the students to involve themselves in current issues, and to show them how these issues are relevant in everyday things like sports. 

         Wallace began his speech by talking about his childhood in the south side of Chicago. He told the crowd about how as a teenager, he began to notice racial stereotypes in the sports that he played, and as he got older, he …
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In today’s society, one thing seems to dominate people’s focus: making money. While money is undeniably essential—you need it to provide for yourself and your family, pay bills and taxes, and afford things you want—what happened to childhood dreams? What happened to achieving personal goals or seeing the world?

When did we decide our dreams weren’t worth pursuing?

A survey by the Pew Research Center found that 45% of Americans are unhappy in their jobs—many citing a lack of purpose as the reason. If that’s the case, why aren’t more people choosing careers that give them meaning?

On the campus of Indiana University, several people were asked what they would do if time and money were no object. Here’s what they had to say:

“I would love to go into neuroresearch,” said IU student Lana Salahieh. …
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