Boral: The Tinder Effect
By Austin Boral | February 27, 2013Samantha Lindsay / The Dartmouth In today's world, there is an application for just about everything.
Samantha Lindsay / The Dartmouth In today's world, there is an application for just about everything.
Julian MacMillan / The Dartmouth As Theodor Geisel once remarked, "Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." Coming from one of the most influential children's authors of all time, this quote carries a certain amount of gravity in the adult world.
As a tearful President Barack Obama addressed the nation just hours after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., a single statement resonated among policymakers and pundits across the nation: "We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent tragedies like this, regardless of the politics." From a college campus in Virginia, to a shopping mall in Tucson, Ariz., to a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., public mass shootings have become a cultural phenomenon in the United States.