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To be honest…with Kristen Agar

9 February 2018
Kristen Agar
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To be honest, Kesha deserved a Grammy. The 2018 Grammys were a let down for a lot of women, but I believe Kesha’s comeback was…

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To be honest…with Sydney Bass

2 February 2018
Sydney Bass
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To be honest, poetry is so underappreciated in today’s culture. People call out poetry for being boring or confusing. Poetry gets viewed as an unsolvable…

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To be honest…with Madison Carroll

1 December 2017
Madison Carroll Porth
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To be honest, I hate feeling obligated to give people gifts. The feeling that I must give someone a gift over the holiday season to…

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To be honest…with Elliott Yoakum

17 November 2017
Elliott Yoakum
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To be honest, male pageants like the annual Mr. Jewell normalize laughter at gender non-conformity. On Nov. 1, Zeta Tau Alpha of William Jewell College…

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To be honest…with Clare Kimmis

10 November 2017
Clare Kimmis
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To be honest, I’m livid. It is 2017 and white supremacists marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Va. resulting in the death of a young…

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To be honest…with Hannah Koehler

3 November 2017
Hannah Koehler
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To be honest, there is too much small talk. “Small talk” is the tedious conversation you have with that twice-removed relative that you only see…

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To be honest…with Dylan Jones

27 October 2017
Dylan Jones
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To be honest I feel like we need to talk about the Friends of the James Farm (FOJF). The organization branches off from the Jesse…

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To be honest…with Erin Melton

6 October 2017
Erin Melton
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To be honest, the social media frenzy of fitness rather than thinness is just as damaging as its predecessor. The movement away from body shaming…

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To be honest…with Edward Townsend

22 September 2017
Edward Townsend
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To be honest, I have been a fool. Over this past weekend, I was inadvertently led to a jarring realization, one that has left me…

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