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Predicting the 2026 Academy Awards Best Actor

By Ronan Goddard -

We’ve officially hit the new year, a fresh slate with nothing to define it. And before anything has the chance to leave its mark, we do what we always do — look...

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Are we being served a plate of love or generational labor?

By Aislinn Shrestha -

During every phone call with my dad — the biggest extrovert I know, an endless provider to his core, yet a man of few words on the phone, satiated simply by hearing...

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2026 will never be 2016

By Danica Lyktey -

Leading up to and following the start of the new year, my social media feeds were flooded with a trend that seemingly came out of nowhere — people begging to make 2026...

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Think before you add to cart

By Allison Bonaventura -

Makeup, skin care and clothing marketing runs rampant on social media platforms through sponsorships, partnerships and product placement. With many consumers trashing, donating or selling their hoards once the inflated value of...

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The power of staying open

By Myah Meunier -

Humans hold an emotional and physical presence, constantly evolving as we experiment and engage with different routines, activities and habits. This process merits continual growth, which can become difficult to manage and...

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Electronic voting is not the future

By Deniz Gulay -

Technology has changed many aspects of elections in the last several decades. Components of a democratic system, like campaigning, polling and policymaking, rely more than ever on the effective use of social...

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Objective on paper, biased in practice

By Michelle Belakh -

As you may have read in my previous column, I explained how gymnastics uses technical terms like “aesthetic” to hide its exclusionary nature and create body hierarchies. Businesses and organizations operate on...

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Is football worth your life?

By Riley Lavrovsky -

Since watching the 2015 film “Concussion” in my 11th-grade psychology class, I have been fascinated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a degenerative brain disease common among football players caused by repeated...

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TikTok's scary new look

By Merrigan Butcher -

Last January, one of the world’s most popular apps, TikTok, went dark in the United States for about 14 hours. Users frantically searched for alternatives and VPNs to get around the entertainment...

Guest Columns

Normalize loving out loud

By Suhiliah Lall -

I love love. From physical touch to gift giving and words of affirmation, all the forms of love language are ones that I speak fluently — and that love is not reserved...