Our Blog's Citation Policy

We believe that citing sources is important because hot topics need a lot of citations in order to be credible; there is so much discourse that it is necessary to cite which author has voiced one opinion.

As a collective group of authors, we decided that we would formally cite at the end of each post and then hyperlink when appropriate for easier access, if possible.  We agreed upon this citation style because the goal of our citations is to make our research as easy and accessible to find.

About the Authors

Camilla Brewer hails from the mighty town of Oak Park, IL (the first western suburb of Chicago!). She was born on October 30, 1991 (do the math) in the late afternoon. She tends to dance a lot, buy copious amounts of shoes, drink too much tea, and sing to strangers. She enjoys baking cupcakes, wearing footie-pajamas, collecting Silly Bandz, and playing Scattergories (the board game). Her mantra is “dream big, kid” and she will not let anything get in my way of doing so. She dreams of being a psychiatrist for rehabilitation program patients; attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will definitely lead her to do great things as such.

Brett Fox is a Sophomore Philosophy and Political Science major at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is interested in a broad range of disciplines and arts, including sports, music, analytic philosophy, American politics, the culinary arts, social ethics, and reality television. He wrote a reader interest column for his high school literary publication, of which the content was reader-generated. He has been published in the Stanford Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy, for his essay arguing for cooking to be considered an art form. Brett is a fairly accomplished guitar player, and is learning the banjo. He currently resides in Huntersville, NC with his mother and father, sister, three dogs, and two horses. 

Taylor Dodge is an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying English.  To date she has written two complete fiction novels as well as published a book of poetry, the latter of which has a second edition in the making.  Some of her hobbies include reading, journaling, volunteering, and playing airsoft.  She hopes to attend graduate school at Cornell University to become a professor of English and, more specifically, creative writing.  She has always dreamed of traveling the world and has no criminal record to speak of.   

Garrett Jacobs is a freshman at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill where he is presently studying Economics. He graduated this past spring as a member of the class of 2010 from the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. At Exeter he was the Editorial Director of the weekly, award-winning school newspaper The Exonian, where he oversaw the opinions section of the newspaper and wrote the editorials that represented the paper’s perspective on current issues. While at Exeter he was also the Editor in Chief of the school’s political magazine Exeter Political Review – a forum in which both sides of the most controversial political topics of the day were discussed and debated. In addition to his involvement with campus publications, he was a member of the Daniel Webster Debating Society and the head of the Republican Club. His personal political views are categorized as being libertarian in nature in regards to social issues, and reminiscent of classical liberalism on economic matters.