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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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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Artificial Intelligence: Benefits and Fears
In recent weeks, a robot was given citizenship in Saudi Arabia. This robot runs on AI, Artificial Intelligence, and is programmed to think, act, and feel as human beings do. …
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Repression of Emotions
Emotional repression is an issue that most men I have encountered have had to deal with, or are currently dealing with, as a result of how we are raised in …
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People Are Still People Wherever They Are
We in America have been raised with an unfounded fear of the “other.” In our parents’ generation, it was communism and the Soviet Union, in ours it is terrorism. However, …
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Consumer Culture: Destroying Our World
To be clear, this is not “holier than thou” editorial. I am just as much at fault as the rest of America in terms of consumerism. That being said, consumerist …
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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 …