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Opinion: Why Art in Schools Shouldn’t Be the First to Go

5 March 2025
Alee Dickey
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Photo by Kyle Head via Uplash. In the landscape of education, all schools have been facing tough decisions when budget cuts arise and, all too…

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Exploring ‘BookTok’: The Good and the Bad

27 November 2024
Alee Dickey
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Photo by Toa Heftiba via Uplash. BookTok is a dynamic and rapidly growing community on TikTok dedicated to all things literature. This vibrant platform allows…

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Sports: A Battleground for Democratic and Authoritarian Values

27 November 2024
Eliott Labeth
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The year 1936 has gone down in European history as the year of the Berlin Olympics under Nazi Germany. Three years before the outbreak of…

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2024 Presidential Debate: Review and Impact

9 October 2024
Matthew Parker
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Earlier this month, the two leading candidates in the 2024 United States Presidential Election faced off on the debate stage for the first, and likely…

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AI: More than just an “essay-generator”

8 September 2023
Alee Dickey
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Gone are the days when having a robot do your homework was something out of a science fiction novel. Whether you’re using ChatGPT, Google Bard…

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Opinion: How to handle the Virginia scandals

22 February 2019
Kyler Schardein
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Over the course of the last month, the commonwealth of Virginia has been wracked by a series of scandals among their elected officials. As the…

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Opinion: The Troost gentrification project is colonialism in action

16 November 2018
Tavarus Pennington
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There isn’t much deliberation needed over the question of whether or not the United States is a colonial project. The U.S. embodies the word colonialism…

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Opinion: Turkey attempts to regain dominance in the Middle East through death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi

2 November 2018
Haley Wadsworth
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has for some time desired for Turkey to replace Saudi Arabia as the dominant force in the Middle East.…

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Why the US missile attack on Syria was misguided

27 April 2018
Hania Osman
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Last week the United States, along with Britain and France, launched a missile attack on Syria in response to a chemical attack, allegedly perpetrated by…

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