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WEEKLY: Take your intellectual crisis to office hours
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WEEKLY: Take your intellectual crisis to office hours

Many students struggle through at least one core course on their way to a degree. But it’s much harder for the virtus to gaudet when, instead of listening to the tenured professor whose class you paid to take, you spend 15 minutes subjected to a sophomore’s rambling, verbal magnum opus. There’s a place to debunk...

Return home after graduation
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Return home after graduation

A couple months before graduating elementary school, I asked God to save me from middle school. I was not afraid of the increased workload, bullying, or making new friends. I was afraid of getting lost in the hallways on my way to class. As a kid, I had a mature sort of way about me,...

You don’t need blue hair to ditch plastic
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You don’t need blue hair to ditch plastic

Americans love their plastic. From bottles and take-out to food storage and construction, plastic is ubiquitous. It is a material we hold in our hearts — literally. In 2023, a pilot study by the American Chemical Society found tens to thousands of individual microplastic pieces — particles ranging in size from a grain of sand...

Letter to the Editor: Open the Searle Center to students
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Letter to the Editor: Open the Searle Center to students

Now that the library has been transformed into a construction zone, the amount of quiet space for students to work on campus has decreased substantially. There is a simple solution, however: Turn the Searle Center into a study hall. The conference room spends most of the year locked up and completely empty, but it doesn’t...