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Opinion: Wellness was never meant to be an achievement
I’ve started to wonder how much I actually know about my body. When I exercise, I can see my heart rate, calories burned and how...
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Opinion: Amidst recent backlash, MSI is more important than ever
I came to Occidental, thousands of miles away from my home in Virginia, completely unfamiliar with my surroundings but eager to learn. Participating in...
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Opinion: The Sparkletts plant sits vacant. Here’s what to do.
During my second week at Occidental, I had to get my medication from the CVS on York Boulevard. As I was heading home, I...
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Opinion: Write for your inner child
There is a scene in the 2010 animated Walt Disney movie “Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue” where Lizzy, a young human girl, works on...
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Opinion: Authoritarianism thrives on inaction — Democrats need urgent resistance
The world watched as Donald Trump took the oath of office Jan. 20, marking his return to the presidency. The inauguration, held on Martin...
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Lessons Learned: (Re)making home at Occidental
I was in Spain in the fall, and now I am here, both again and for the first time. While Occidental could hardly be called...
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Opinion: What Democrats can learn from Ruben Gallego’s Senate victory in 2024
On the night of Nov. 5, 2024, my co-organizers and I were at our favorite restaurant celebrating the nearing culmination of the past months’ efforts....
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Opinion: There is no unconditional love
For the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “unconditional” is defined as “not conditional or limited.” For my mother, unconditional love is not the absence of conditions, but the weight...
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Opinion: ‘You and me got a whole lot of history’
It was December 2015. My sisters and I gathered on our olive green couch, anxiously waiting for a performance we had anticipated for months. One...
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Opinion: Joe Biden finalized our turn away from neoliberalism — it will be sorely missed
Donald Trump has been reelected president of the United States — and now, Joe Biden has entered his lame duck era. In the pages...
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Opinion: We need to write more about nuclear bombs
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists released their latest report Jan. 23 on the potentially world-ending dangers of nuclear escalation. The doomsday clock, which serves...
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Opinion: Black Myth: Wukong — what makes a video game so compelling?
Black Myth: Wukong is a recent action game developed and published by Game Science in 2024. The game is heavily inspired by the Chinese...
