There’s a lot that should be worrying me right now. People around the world are grieving losses of friends and family to a virus. Many others worry about losing jobs …
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Invest in political advocacy and be active in political change
All summer, I traipsed on and off of Capitol Hill attempting to convince legislators that climate change is not only something to be concerned about, but something to actively legislate …
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Safe Zone training delves into LGBTQ+ experience, exclusion
One opportunity to expand Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day to other issues of inclusion appeared in the form of a Safe Zone Training on Monday, Jan. 20. Education professor …
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Editorial: A Reflection on Change
Yesterday afternoon, I spent a couple hours in the blazing sun, mulching the Sustainable Food Initiative garden with old Weather Vane issues. I crouched on the ground, surrounded by a …
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Poverty Simulation Draws Students
Nearly 40 EMU students clustered in Martin Chapel in groups of two or three. The room was hushed—an unusual phenomenon for this many people gathered in one room. All faces …
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Spring Break Y-serve Reflections
West Virginia Senior Lydia Musselman led the SWAP (Sharing with Appalachian People) trip this year to Kimball, West Virginia. Musselman said, “A group of five of us went to SWAP …
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Editorial: Censorship and Journalism
Allie and I recently got an email from Kirsten, our faculty advisor, about censorship in campus newspapers. She forwarded us the College Media Insights newsletter containing an article about the …
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Town Hall Covers Microaggressions
For its fourth year in a row, BSU hosted a town hall on race in Common Grounds. This event was designed to gather the community to discuss the ways in …
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Editorial: Students Need the Humanities
Every Thursday, I stumble out of Philosophy of Religion and make the trek from Roselawn to a macroinvertebrate identification and research class in the science center. This is one of …
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Climate Justice Event Sparks Conversation
“Death by a thousand cuts.” This is the image that Pastor Paul Wilson and his colleague-in-arms Jeeva Abate bring to their grassrootsrun fight against a 600-mile fracked natural gas pipeline. …