This is my third year at EMU. It also looks to be my last, thanks to dual-enrollment credits in high school, summer courses, and careful planning. Though this semester has …
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Continued Learning: Key to Conservation
To conclude my three-week column on ways environmentalism can be included in your day-to-day life, I want to emphasize what I believe is the most important part of all: continued …
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Repair As a Crucial Part of Sustainability
Two weeks ago, I talked about sustainability in the ways we consume and what we do with things that we have outgrown — whether physically or otherwise. This week, I …
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Sustainability Can Be Easier Than We Think
Sustainability is a buzzword that EMU uses broadly, as do many other universities and corporations, but I believe that few people actually care about it to a significant degree. Many …
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Longenecker on Fall Oregon Extension
The Oregon Extension (OE) is an intentional learning community in the mountains of Oregon, accredited through EMU and open to students from numerous Christian colleges. The OE centers around topics …
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US Sees Mixed Results in Winter Olympics
The Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Winter Games in South Korea reached conclusion this past Sunday, Feb. 25. The closing ceremony was one highlight for the otherwise meagerly-watched games, with an estimated …
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Continuing Mental Illness Conversation
When we talk about issues of mental health in current U.S. culture, we have a problem of trivializing legitimate disorders through our vocabulary while simultaneously often not taking these issues …
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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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Take Care of Yourselves
It is that time of the semester — crunch time is upon us. Everyone is tired, students and professors alike. We are almost all some degree of overwhelmed, and for …
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Looking Past Nostalgia and Seeking Facts
Nostalgia is a powerful sentiment. It allows us to remember the experiences we had in the past, and to look on them fondly. Nostalgia is beautiful, it is often bittersweet, …