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Whether we acknowledge it or not, we all size each other up based on our achievements. Not because we want to judge others—but because we want to know where we stand.
Every day we sanitize our institution’s history we compound the consequences that will surely become its legacy.
What the University needs at this moment is greater commitment to comprehensive and sustainable public transportation, not a yuppie trend.
It certainly didn’t feel like home to me during my orientation week.
For the duration of the command, you are the personification of a wood two by four.
What I’m seeing online is edgy reality television where I can sign Bill Clinton's birthday card and watch people bully each other on the internet in the name of a moral high ground.
Although Radical ‘Randys’ dominate discussions with talk of “big structural change” or wholesale “swamp draining,” their rhetoric and actions are typically impractical, counterproductive and alienate others. In contrast, centrism and compromise, by design, work well within our political system and typically result in tangible progress.
My name is Quinn Smith, I am a member of the Chickasaw tribe of Oklahoma, born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
I remember the individual moments and days that seemed to stretch on forever. This leads me to wonder, how did those seemingly unending moments fade away from my immediate recollection so fast?
Duke claims that it has considered the health effects of tobacco consumption and the various groups that will be affected by this ban, yet such consideration must necessarily entail a more moderate approach.
The harmful impact of those assaults is often both life altering and life long.
“I have not seen any other peer institutions offer such a robust outreach and program to assure LGBTQIA+ prospective students feel welcome.”
There is a limit to how much we can work, how much we can carry on our own, how much we can do without needing rest, love, and help. All our limits are different, and all are valid.
Yes, climate change is driven by human activity—but not just any human activity.
This part of environmental science is ugly.
The bigger mistakes I make stem from the smallest of things: not cleaning my room, not checking my email, or not putting my keys and wallet in the same place every day.
Veho means spider and white man and trickster, and spiders weave webs but they also weave traps. And sometimes they weave both at once.
Learning Indian history revealed where I belong in the world. And my own search has given me something special: a fragment of my traditional culture.
There was a time that I too sported the Adidas slide in any and all informal settings.
The middle ground between a truth and a lie is still false; just because particular compromises may bring about beneficial outcomes does not suggest in the slightest that moderation is necessarily correct.
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