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 the most under-rewarded. After suing her producer, Dr. Luke, for sexual assault in 2014, the court denied her the ability to void her contract, which…
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To be honest…with Sydney Bass
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 puzzle instead of an exciting riddle. I attribute this opinion to standardized education that makes students track rhyme scheme or forces them to dissect a…
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To be honest…with Madison Carroll
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 express my appreciation for them invokes resentment. There are two things to clarify before continuing. First, I love Christmas and the holiday season in…
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To be honest…with Elliott Yoakum
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 hosted its annual Mr. Jewell Pageant. Although the event raised money to help combat breast cancer (not through Susan G. Komen, thank God), male pageants…
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To be honest…with Clare Kimmis
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 woman. These members, mostly white males, carried flags with swastikas on them, brandished lit tiki torches and held their right arms in a fashion that…
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To be honest…with Hannah Koehler
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 once a year during the holidays. “How are classes going?” “Keeping out of trouble?” (Question often paired with an unwelcomed wink). “Have you met a…
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To be honest…with Dylan Jones
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 James Farm in Kearney, Mo. The group has existed for 39 years and Oct. 14, 2017 was its last reunion. On June 20, 2017, I…
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To be honest…with Erin Melton
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 and into body positivity has swerved quite far from starvation and into emphasizing the necessity of ultimate health and fitness as the way to love…
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To be honest…with Edward Townsend
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 unsettled and profoundly disconcerted. In the years prior to my coming to William Jewell College, I thought I had discovered an infallible ideal of personal…
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