Energy fills the room. Students are standing up, engaging in interactive activities. At one station, students are debating a poem; at another station, students are using the class set of …
Opinion
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University Still Has Room to Become More Diverse
This is my last semester on campus. I plan to transfer after this year. I’m not leaving because EMU is a horrible place that destroys all joy and creativity, but …
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EMU Reflection: “The First Report Is Always Wrong”
These past four years at EMU, I have continued to grow and learn in a variety of ways. I have explored the field of History in greater depth and studied …
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Marvel: Business Over Creativity a Consistent Downfall
The first article I ever wrote for The Weather Vane was a movie review about how I thought the then-recent movie “Guardians of the Galaxy” was better than “The Avengers.” …
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Editorial: A Year of Learning to Listen with Vulnerability
Conflict and criticism have always made me uncomfortable. Through high school, I typically stayed silent in class debates for fear of rebuttal and almost always avoided conflict if I could. …
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An Open Look at Feelings and How to Deal with Them
I’m an open and brutally honest person; it’s easy for me to just talk about things that people probably don’t want to hear or need to know, but I say …
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Appreciating Actors: We Cannot Live on Applause Alone
It has come to my attention that when an audience appreciates a work of art — in this case, theater — they generally have one response that the artists hear. …
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Soft Science Is a Useless Distinction with Little Value
Often, in normal vernacular, social sciences — especially psychology, sociology, economics, and anthropology — are “soft,” and natural sciences — especially physics, chemistry, and biology — are “hard.” This is …
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The Revolution Will Be Commodified and on Sale at 7/11
If your Twitter feed is anything like mine, I assume most of you have heard about Kendall Jenner’s new Pepsi ad, the one in which she hops onto a generic, …
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Disney’s “First Openly Gay Character” Is Nothing New
I went to see the new, live-action “Beauty and the Beast” on Sunday, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s certainly flawed and can never compare to the original, but it …