When I meet new people — which is not often, thank Christ — one of the first questions that comes up is “What are you studying?” “Writing,” I tell them. …
Opinion
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Changing Conversation on Mental Illness
For the most part, it appears that the word “retard” is slowly making its way out of the vocabulary in the communities I inhabit. This is certainly not to say …
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Expressing Yourself in a “Normal” Society
Have you ever been told to stop doing something simply because it was weird? Maybe you were not told explicitly, maybe it was just through body movement, or the judgmental …
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When Communities Divide
Growing up in the Mennonite church, community is a word I have heard many times. The idea of community continues to be ingrained within me at Eastern Mennonite University. We …
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Editorial: Self-Care and Loving Yourself
You are the only person you are guaranteed to spend your whole life with, so you might as well learn to get along. I cannot remember where I first heard …
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Realpolitik and Today’s Political Division
A year on, Mr. Donald Trump is still our president. Though many of us still cannot quite figure out how or why he got elected and foolishly spend our time …
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Where Are All the Climate Change Statues?
This September, a new statue was raised on the corner of College Ave. behind the library, to much fanfare from the campus community. The striking 20-foot depiction of a plow …
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Our Climate Solutions and Our University
Let’s start with a well-established fact: climate neutrality is imperative by 2050. If we do not curb carbon emissions by that admittedly-arbitrary date, then we will likely be unable to …
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Christmas Controversy
It is finally Christmas season. The long-awaited time of cookies and hot cocoa has arrived. We are finally allowed to hang Christmas lights in our dorm rooms and the beautifully …
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Editorial: Adding Student Voices in Print
As the semester ends, so does my reign as Editor in Chief. At first, that realization saddened me. Thoughts of apprehension raced through my head. I have so much left …