OPINIONS

Julia O’Reily Opinions Columnist

Do soulmates exist?

If you couldn’t guess, I — the heartless bitch behind this screen, who often finds her faith in love dwindling in the presence of frat douches and alpha-male gym-bros — do not believe in such a pretty-picture concept. Shocking, I know.

But my unyielding “men are assholes until proven otherwise” mindset is not the only reason why. To be fair, I hope for the sake of probability that the one-person-for-everyperson theory is untrue. Some, like a writer at the Atlantic, claim that “such must begin with her. It should not be up to universities to ration their thinning budgets, and the Editorial Board strongly believes it is time for the state to step up.

That doesn’t take the BU off the hook, however. When looking at other large SUNY institutions, like the University at Buffalo — an institution comparable in both status and its surrounding area’s cost of living — BU falls short. Our raises for doctoral students on 10-month appointments are $2,000 lower and were announced months later. Additionally, Buffalo had already been paying its doctoral students $20,000 since 2019, higher than our current $17,000 floor.

Obviously, the circumstances faced by other schools are not necessarily expectations are correlated with dysfunctional patterns in relationships.”

Not only can the idea of soulmates hinder individuals from entering a relationship for fear that their significant other isn’t their one true person, but it can also lead to harmful tendencies between partners. It can be conducive to a belief in “mind reading” and other unrealistic ideas that align with the unrealistic nature of soulmates. Because it’s “cosmically perfect,” people believe that their relationship should be immune to issues and challenges. This misconception can wreak havoc on relationships, hindering forgiveness and escalating the severity of conflicts, as people may

Samantha Rigante Opinions Columnist

On April 7, a federal judge from Texas issued an extremely controversial ruling claiming that the drug mifepristone, which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for over 20 years — since 2000 — is unsafe and that the FDA made a mistake in approving it to be medically available. Mifepristone is most commonly used as a way to induce abortions through a two-part regimen of pills, with additional uses including treating miscarriages and diseases such as Cushing’s syndrome, in which people produce excess cortisol.

Mifepristone, which medical experts commonly agree is safe, is now at risk of being banned because of a judge appointed by former President Donald Trump.

After the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade last year, the right to get an abortion has been banned or severely limited in many states throughout the country. Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida signed a law on April 14 banning abortions after six weeks, with no exceptions, and other states including Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana banned abortion procedures at every stage of pregnancy. In Texas, where the federal

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