I recently read an article on CNN by Madison Park about a group of teens that threw a bunch of fireworks into a canyon and started a forest fire in …
Opinion
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An Open Letter to EMU Student Life Staff
To whom it may concern, I am a first-year at EMU, but the school is not new to me as my older siblings have all come here for college. One …
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Editorial: Consider Nuances of Cultures
Culture is more than food, dance, and music. It impacts how people interact with the world around them and cannot always be seen. In the western culture of the United …
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Learning to Swim Laterally in Our World
We live in a fast world — a fast country. As college students, we all have grown up in the same era, one of rapid growth. We have witnessed incredible …
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Editorial: Our New Look for a New Year
The start of a new school year can mean new beginnings for many things: new classes, new professors, new books — though the prices are nothing new — and new …
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America Was Made for Dreamers
This summer I met a pair of brothers, one a year older than me and one a year younger, colloquially known as “Dreamers.” They came to the United States when …
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From Pax Romana to Pax America
“For these Romans I set no bounds in space work time; but have given empire without end,” Jupiter pronounced in Virgil’s Aeneid, demonstrating a sense of invincibility felt by the …
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Embracing Our Changing Selves
I distinctly remember a conversation I had with my roommate last year where I declared that I would not change at all in my four years of college. She was …
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Find Your Infatuation: Balancing Variety and Stability
Since elementary school at least, I’ve known I wanted to be an English major. And before that, I knew I wanted to be a writer — I still do, though …
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Farewell EMU: My Final Thoughts to the Community
As I look forward to my departure from EMU, processing where I stand with the community, the space, and the culture of EMU is incredibly overwhelming. Leaving EMU is not …