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Ads are key platform for social issues

By Noah Thornburgh | January 27, 2019

Gillette’s recent “The Best Men Can Be” advertising campaign, released online Jan. 13, received a polarized reaction from the public. It has been praised for its anti-toxic masculinity stance and criticized as an inauthentic ploy to capitalize on...

Question ‘gender boxes,’ masculinity

By Ryan Lee | September 24, 2014

A lack of masculine discourse is being discussed at NIU due to the efforts of the renamed Gender and Sexuality Resource Center.Combining the Women’s Resource Center and the LGBT Resource Center into one facility, the centers were merged to make one...

Miller Lite ads dim to some

By Tony Martin | August 23, 2010

Nothing completes the pallet of the college experience like a can (or bottle, or 40 ounce) of beer. Beer makes everyone happy (presumably), or possibly angry, flirty or sick. Yet the politics of beer remain somewhat muddled. Watching as much sports as...