There is an interesting dilemma evident throughout my entire collegiate journey, an ever-present tension that leaves me both optimistic about my time in college and detached from it. On one …
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“It Was Fun While It Lasted”: Sueco Revels in the Well-worn Ground of Pop-punk
As one of the marquee and definitive sounds of a generation, Pop-punk, itself a subsidiary and fusion of the larger Pop and Punk-rock genres, is both nostalgic and immediate all …
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Celebrate Your Essential Local Library
Big, small, hole-in-the-wall, city size or otherwise, libraries have always been as influential and important a social institution as any other. Public libraries, school libraries and every other type in …
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An Examination of Expectations
In my various opinion pieces with The Weather Vane, I’ve been very candid about my collegiate experience, my ethics, and the dispositions I have to expectations. Much of this is …
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Everyone’s Going to Die in “Don’t Look Up”
“Don’t Look Up” is the third film I’ve reviewed in Netflix’s growing catalog of big-budget films with loaded casts and very prominent names and talent behind the camera, and it’s …
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Valentine’s Movie and Music Recommendations
Valentine’s Day is a contentious holiday for many. On one hand, it’s an encouraging time for couples to celebrate their love, on the other it’s seen as an arbitrary commercialization …
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Faith Manickam: Life and Leadership With SGA’s Co-President
College is a journey like no other. Each student’s paths to self-actualization and the discovery and development of their higher purpose are wholly unique and individualized, but also very much …
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Exploring empowerment through literature
Third-years Sabrina Bellar and Jessica Buckwalter have a lot on their mind. At the forefront is connecting the women of EMU’s community through shared experiences, stories, warm drinks, baked goods, …
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Expectations are stunting happiness
Expectations. It’s a word everyone– from students to parents, to workers, to any member of the human race and society– knows all too well. Expectations create the basis for action …
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Harrisonburg’s historical buildings: home to local hauntings
Amid the now typical state of the world during a pandemic whose grips we are still very much vested in, Harrisonburg Downtown Renaissance’s annual Halloween celebration– “Skeleton Fest”– was made …