When I came to EMU in the fall of 2014, I was a skinny, nineteen-year-old kid who was hoping to do something that no one in my family has ever …
Opinion
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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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Editorial: Disregard Your Judgmental Side
As I stared blankly at the Google Doc that would become my final editorial, I tried to think up some great lesson that would be particularly insightful or clever. The …
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Change EMU to Embrace Anabaptist Roots
It is quite strange, being 24 days away from college graduation — honestly, I still know very little and have no specific set of job skills. This is totally not …
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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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Discovering Balance and Self-Acceptance
They never tell you how it feels. They never tell you how it ends. You do not get to read the end of the story you live. You do not …
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Meal Plan Is Impractical
At EMU, students are required to buy full meal plans for as long as they live in the dorms. I am in my third year and have lived in a …
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Editorial: EMU Needs to Find Transparency
As my last editorial of my undergraduate career, I would like to use this space as an open letter to EMU. My parents wanted me to come to EMU because …
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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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Advocating Nature Through Technology
While some advocates for nature would say we need to stop using technology entirely and go back to a simpler time, the reality is that technology might be our greatest …