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Why say “like”?
Nathan H. Ware News Editor As a global nomad, I have lived outside the United States. When exposed to American culture before coming to the U.S., I noticed something my foreign friends and I still laugh about: how often Americans our age say “like”. My …
On the origin of series.
Laura J. Burch Contributing Writer President Anne McCall’s opening remarks on the first night of the “Democracy and Academic Freedom: A Forum” series (Sept. 3, 2025) contained errors and omissions concerning the history of the College. These errors and omissions pose serious reputational risk to …
Stop making excuses. Slurs aren’t jokes, they’re violence.
Willow Rodriguez A&E Editor There’s an epidemic on campus. It involves white students using racial slurs under the guise of “jokes,” “quotes”, or “passes.” This could be dropping the n-word while singing a song, shouting a slur as a joke or slipping offensive terms into …