There are many different reasons that someone would get tattoos or piercings. Many people assume that it is something negative because of the stigma of them that has grown throughout …
Opinion
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End the Us War on Drugs
Growing up in the United States, it is very unlikely that by the time we are ready to go to college we have not encountered some kind of drug. This …
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Editorial: Removing Literary Merit Label
In literature classes and other similar settings, the fiction read there is often referred to as “literary fiction” to distinguish it from common fiction, or “genre fiction.” But what does …
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ICPF Conference and Restorative Justice
This past weekend I jumped into a car with four other EMU students from Peace Fellowship Club and drove 10 hours north to Conrad Grebel University College in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario, …
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Reclaiming the Church From Colonialism
My mind was racing after Peace Team presented in chapel on Friday, Feb. 9. Christine Nobiss shared her perspective of the Church as a Native American peace activist. She accused …
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A Work of Art Is Never Beautiful by Decree
What is art? Why does it exist? Does it have meaning; does it have a purpose? Is it simply something beautiful to decorate our homes and our minds? Artists and …
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Continuing Mental Illness Conversation
When we talk about issues of mental health in current U.S. culture, we have a problem of trivializing legitimate disorders through our vocabulary while simultaneously often not taking these issues …
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Editorial: Mantras and Positive Headspace
What you are thinking inside your head right now matters. I do not mean that as a way of fluffing your ego for you, or to make you stop what …
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Hiding Behind Media for Societal Change
“We need change now,” is a social media stance I see often. I can agree with this phrase on many levels. We need change in our government; not only the …
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Vegan as Necessity and Personal Choice
About a year ago I developed both Lyme disease and a fluctuating thyroid, on top of many other things. I had just ended a seven year track of vegetarianism and …