To be honest, I think that fake news is hardly limited to politics. While pop culture news has often been thought of as “fake” in and…
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To be honest…with Jazmyne Ross
To be honest, I’m tired of minorities being mistaken for other ethnicities or for other people of the same race every day. This is prevalent in…
Read MoreSports are culture, not art
A few weeks ago, “The Hilltop Monitor” ran an editorial that was critical of Meryl Streep’s Golden Globe award acceptance speech, in which she made some—seemingly—disparaging comments…
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Quit berating the Super Bowl over how much it costs
Every year, it shows up on Facebook: posts throwing around the cost of a Super Bowl advertisement, ticket or the whole shebang, and arguing that…
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Letter to the Monitor: Jameson O’Connor
To my fellow students, I am concerned for the future of our republic. Not because of who our next president will be, but because I…
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Ghost stories of Jewell
As Halloween approaches the William Jewell College (WJC) campus, students begin to prepare their costumes and look forward to the FIJI Halloween Rave. However, too…
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Opinion: You Can Achieve Your Dreams
There are more than seven billion people in the world today, and out of those seven billion people, there are about 320 million Americans. There is…
Read MoreBajas: trending “drug rug” or womb of the fashion world?
Surely by the time your life has reached the collegiate level, you’ve seen a Baja hoodie. They are the staple of any member of a…
Read MoreWith Hollywood steeped in capitalism, the Academy suffers
Awards season is over after the Feb. 22 Academy Awards, also known as The Oscars. The highly coveted golden statue has come under fire recently…
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