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Letter to the Monitor with Trevor Nicks

24 February 2017
Trevor Nicks
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Every time I think about climate change and science denialism I think of a weekly reader my sixth grade class did about ten years ago.…

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A Series of Dark, Humorous (but Still Unfortunate) Events

17 February 2017
Jesse Lundervold
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The opening sequence of Netflix’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events” implores the viewer to “look away, look away,” describing how the Netflix show will “wreck…

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Humans of Jewell

17 February 2017
Amy Mullen
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Jesse Lundervold is a junior chemistry and studio art major. She sat with The Hilltop Monitor to discuss what she has learned about the two seemingly opposite…

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Lynn McCutchen’s senior show, “Private Lives,” was an illustrious success

17 February 2017
Brett Stone
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Lynn McCutchen, senior theatre performance major, has put on one of the best shows I have seen from the Jewell Theatre Company, which should come…

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Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling stun in “La La Land”

17 February 2017
Sydney Georges
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From the very beginning, Damien Chazelle’s  “La La Land” displays an exotic introduction of the hopes and dreams of young, aspiring adults who have left…

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Artist Feature: Lynn McCutchen

10 February 2017
Harper Vincent
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Some parents make their kids listen to The Grateful Dead or George Strait on the way to school every morning. Lynn McCutchen, a senior theatre…

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Humans of Jewell

10 February 2017
Sydney Georges
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“Growing up in elementary school, I went to a very small, private school. I had no friends and thought of myself as a total weirdo.…

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To be honest…with Erin Melton

3 February 2017
Erin Melton
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To be honest, I find it incredibly hurtful that atheism is invariably accompanied by a negative connation. I do not mean that people look on…

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Humans of Jewell

3 February 2017
Madelyn Comeau
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The crowd is silent, the lights turn on and the curtain rises. This feeling is all too familiar to first-year theatre minor Nick LaDue. He sat down with…

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