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Playing video games and rejecting the end of the world
Over winter break, I spent a significant portion of my time in the same way I imagine many of my fellow students did: doomscrolling. In the wake of the presidential election, my...
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'Kill all men' by way of decentralization
The all-too-familiar phrase and hashtag “kill all men” has been recovered in discourse since 2020, being commonly used in radical feminist spaces as a “controversial” expression of frustration against the patriarchal systems...
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Visualizing stories in games requires depth and variety
Sometimes games are about the action: the entertainment that comes from shooting, blasting, racing, flying or generally doing some kind of physical movement. However, on the other end of the spectrum, games’...
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Stripping the comfort out of 'Gilmore Girls'
“Gilmore Girls” has become a comfort show for many teenagers across the United States — including me — because of its slow-burn plot and simple characters. Though the show has usually served...
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Kendrick Lamar offers an authentic display of performative resistance
On Feb. 9, Pulitzer Prize and 22-time Grammy-winner Kendrick Lamar made waves with a historic halftime performance at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans. The rapper staged the show as what many...
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There are no 'useless' majors
“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine,...
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'The Paul Street Boys' warns us of imagined borders
To be inspired by art is, at times, to have a new pair of eyes and, at other times, to gain a new brush and new tins of paint. There is a...
Staff Editorials
On much-needed campus support amid troubling executive orders
Since President Donald Trump assumed office, a rapid blitz of executive orders and policies targeting immigration and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have been enacted. These include a pause on refugee resettlement,...
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France must brace for the 'Sixth Republic'
France is perhaps the symbolic epitome of European political culture. The economic power of the European Union is led by Germany, the defense of the continent is dependent on the United States...
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Fall of Ba'athism will jeopardize the Middle East
It would have been unthinkable, even a mere few months ago, that Syria’s civil war would suddenly reach a new stage. The rapid collapse of the Bashar al-Assad government is the beginning...