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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: Harris’s button-pushing debate performance spoke to older siblings everywhere
A few years ago, my little sister Molly got a really unfortunate haircut that made her look like Macaulay Culkin in “Home Alone." Naturally, I mercilessly...
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The sports gambling goliath: financial blessing or cultural curse?
The devil on your shoulder - Ben Petteruti While sports gambling may seem sinister, one must acknowledge the positives that it has brought onto the...
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Opinion: WEIRD is a weird term
WEIRD is an acronym that stands for a specific demographic that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. Everywhere, and especially in academia, the...
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Opinion: Why the United States must not treat Israel differently
During the "The United States-Israeli Security Alliance: A Conversation with an Internal Critic" event held Sept. 3, former Director of Bureau on Political Military...
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Opinion: Owning the fear of being a Freshie
First-years, welcome to college. We have been dropped into a completely new environment where everything is foreign to us, despite the countless tours we...
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Opinion: America is sick of hopelessness
The morning of Sunday, July 21, I discovered what a huge day it was for America. I woke up not to the sound of...
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Lessons Learned: College may not have been the ‘best four years’ of my life, but it forged me into a warrior
They say college is supposed to be the best four years of your life. As a 17-year-old who was having a hard time in...
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Lessons Learned: The liberal arts degree was worth it!!
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… you know the rest. But aside from (cliché) aphorisms, I never thought...
