Tag: Signed

Puck you

Hockey fans — let’s take it personally this time. The unconditional love we feel for our mistress, the NHL, is unrequited. As if that wasn’t obvious enough in 2004, the first time she disappeared, only to return a year later yelling “Puck, how I’ve missed you!”, we still took her back. Now the NHL...

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Misguided Tweets

People are tweeting, but all I’m hearing is squawking. Twitter has the potential to provide many benefits to society, but, if Miley Cyrus keeps tweeting about her haircut, I fear this popular social medium will lose its edge as a useful and convenient resource. Twitter is an efficient tool when tweets...

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Label me this

When you label someone, you silence them. For the past four years, this is the message that has stuck with me since it was proclaimed by a rowdy group of second years during my first Existere show. In first year, it was a running joke between my friends. When someone said anything remotely offensive,...

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All or nothing

What do cheating on a test, washing your hands and a donkey have in common? They all involve some element of half-assery. I’ll try not to be too crass, but how else do you describe actions that don’t involve a level of care without using overly academic language like incompetent, haphazard or uncaring? You...

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Speak up

The subject of sexual assaults is an uneasy one to approach, but, that kind of thinking is what keeps us from supporting the victims and giving them the courage to speak up. I remember how lonely and confused I felt as I struggled to cope with my assault, the most dreadful night of my life. I felt...

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More than money

When fourth-year hit, I found some of my most intelligent and capable friends expressing increasing uncertainty about their futures. As the end of exams approached, they doubted whether their decision to write essays and read novels for four years as ArtSci ’12s was indeed a sound one. We’re bombarded...

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Seven billion miracles

The United Nations has reported that the Earth’s population will reach seven billion by the end of this month. There are two differing opinions about this population increase. The first is that we need to intervene to protect ourselves from overpopulation and overconsumption using a tactic along the...

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