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EDEL: The road less traveled

As a consequence, rejected Comm School applicants funnel into majors that follow from the prerequisites, like Economics, regardless of whether or not that’s their interest.


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CONNOLLY: Hold your horses

Too often, Democrats put forth a proposal (raising the federal minimum wage, for instance), and Republicans oppose the proposal but fail to articulate a policy alternative.


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ABBOTT: Go West, young man

The answer — find a job that makes you a better, more intuitive person, not a better employee. Statistics (somewhere) say that better people eventually get better jobs.


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HUMOR: Comedy is God

Whether it’s spiders, snakes, a cracked iPhone screen, missing a party (FOMO is so real y’all), a woman’s right to choose, racism, Ebola, or death we fear, we attack and repel these things with humor, for better or for worse.


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Risk management

Presumably, students who are expelled for sexual misconduct can just go on to attend other universities — no matter if they are athletes who get recruited to play for teams, or if they just apply and are accepted based on academic credentials.


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EVANS: In pursuit of honor

It would seem that the competitive nature of our extracurricular atmosphere is not so conducive to the integrity of Honor’s image and procedure.


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WHISNANT: Swift ascending

Much like with the similarly monolithic Beyoncé, it’s hard to read an article about Taylor Swift without running into an examination of her credentials as a feminist.


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PATEL: Know thyself

I don’t trust others because I have separated them from myself with some arbitrary quality or distinction, and as a result, I lose the opportunity to make great friends and meet good people.


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KELLY: Advising woes

In recent years, students have been quite vocal about their general dissatisfaction with the current advising system, citing concerns such as the insufficiency of career advising resources and a lack of advisors who match student interests during the pre-major period.


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BERGER: A voice for the marginalized

The word “freak” used to describe the characters is not maliciously intended for the disabled, but instead meant to expose the “freaks” who pay to watch the show, enjoy the dehumanizing display and leave grinning and satisfied


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On solid ground

Adjuncts should not have to live in fear that any outspoken criticism of their employers will result in their termination, especially when some improvements for adjuncts would also result in improvements for students.


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WAN: Suffering from stereotypes

Unlike plain racist and sexist comments, stereotyping, far from being condemned, criticized and down-voted, is recognized by the Yik Yak community as the key to getting high votes.


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MENNINGER: Worth the squeeze

If you’re completely certain that without an internship you’ll turn into a couch potato and eat spray cheese and Twinkies for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, then by all means apply right now.


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ALJASSAR: Confronting slavery

By telling the stories of enslaved individuals, UGS promotes student and community engagement in conversation about our history of slavery, a subject to which we have turned a blind eye for so long.

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