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 …
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The Music of Common Grounds (and the Drinks to Go With It!)
I’ve invented a small game that I play whenever I visit Common Grounds; I listen closely to the music seeping through the speakers of the coffee house, and I try …
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Eastern Mennonite Has a Title IX Problem
As the 2024 presidential election looms ever closer, one of Biden’s flagship campaign promises remains unfulfilled and precarious; an overhaul of the long-since-gutted Title IX system in the United States. …
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Halloween is Dead: and America Killed It!
Every December, during a slow news week, conservative talking heads will air their woes regarding social secularization and America’s increasing trend toward atheism. They’ll do this in talk-show segments they’ve …
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War in Palestine: The Dangers of False Neutrality
On Saturday, Oct. 7, the Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (acronymized as ‘Hamas’) nationalist group launched an open assault on Israel, marking the largest series of attacks since the raid of the …