“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my …
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EMU Hosts Opportunity to Learn, Connect, and Reflect on Palestine Conflict
A large crowd of students and community members, bearing keffiyehs and wristbands, gathered in the EMU Student Union Monday night to partake in a teach-in on the sociopolitical conditions in …
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Heartache at Last: Ashley Mellinger and Her Debut Novel
Throughout the past few years, a neatly written note would occasionally appear on the chalkboards of the science center: “Finish H.O.T.P.S.” This cryptic message caught the imaginations of passers-by, leaving …
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Beyond the Pale: a Review of Disco Elysium
Alcohol. Disco. Communism. These are the spirits haunting your amnesia-addled brain as you awaken in your thrashed hostel bedroom. You are a detective… maybe. You can’t remember. Come to think …
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David Gushee on Democracy and Christianity
On February 6, EMU hosted Dr. David Gushee, an acclaimed pastor, author, and Christian ethicist, as a part of a speaking tour that coincides with the release of his newest …
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Is This It…
… is the debut album from the now-prestigious New York rock band, The Strokes. Its release to North American audiences in October 2001 was met with swathes of unprecedented acclaim—a …
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Review: The Music of Townes Van Zandt
On New Year’s Day, 1997, Townes Van Zandt passed away in the hospital at the age of 52. This passing January marks 27 years since his passing, and mercy: what …
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EMU Prepares For New Title IX Legislation
In 2020, the newly-inaugurated Biden administration expressed a desire to overhaul Title IX, the federal legislation that forms the basis of how Higher Ed institutions handle issues of sexual discrimination …
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Social Media, The Internet, and Palestine
Last fall, I wrote an article about the then-escalating tensions between the state of Israel and the Palestinian people. In that piece, I critiqued the “both sides are equally bad!” …
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I Really, *Really* Don’t Want to Vote for Joe Biden
During the 2020 election season, I made a silent prayer to myself; it went something like: “Please, for the love of God, let this be the worst election I ever …