Written by Stephanie Parker The airwaves have been controlled by record labels for as long as there have been music charts. Even the famed disc jockey, Dick Clark, was once embroiled in a payola scandal. Following the rise in public awareness of chart manipulations, people have largely understood the charts to be an indication of the artists that record labels want the public to like. Oftentimes these musicians are good; they're entertaining and charismatic. Those with the wi

Written by Jose Benjamin Montaño Ironically, recent political offense and tragedy developed in the days leading up to National Hispanic Heritage Month— the somewhat ingenuous, somewhat problematic attempt to recognize the social and cultural contributions of Hispanic individuals. In the face of current exclusionary rhetoric and attacks against undocumented and documented Latin@s in the United States, the thought of Nike pandering to Mexicans to buy their new sneakers, or of t