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Mentally Exhausted? Stressed? Read a book.
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Mentally Exhausted? Stressed? Read a book.

“What do you do for fun?” More than any other, this question shows us just how little we do with our free time. A common fallback response to this question is “I like to read,” but rarely do we actually spend our free time reading. We do too much of that in our classes, so...

Non-conformist language fails to describe the essence of the human being
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Non-conformist language fails to describe the essence of the human being

In last week’s “Embracing gender-deviant people’s societal roles,” Dunkerely assumes the language proposed by those who themselves identify as ‘non-conforming’ in his defense of a healthy discourse on the inclusion of gender-deviants. That language is best symbolized by the genderbread person, a tool that divides the person into four separate spectra of gender identity, gender...

From partying to praying and painting
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From partying to praying and painting

It was a child’s chore that inspired Steve Wismar ’72— Steve the Painter — to begin painting. Wismar and his younger brother were painting some furniture in the yard for their mom. Eventually, she let Wismar’s younger brother go play. In response to Steve Wismar’s complaints, she said: “You’re the better painter.” Almost 60 years...