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PERSPECTIVE: Lean in and listen
It’s been almost a week since Donald Trump was elected to be our next president, and since then, I’ve talked way too much. I’ve talked about how I feel, how I’m frustrated that others don’t […]
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PERSPECTIVE: Neither Clinton nor Trump
By Joshua Sander Nearly eight months ago, I wrote an article for this publication stating that I was going to vote for Hillary Clinton for president in the upcoming election. In the article, I cited […]
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PERSPECTIVE: Donald Rumsfeld Visits Jackson
Act I The air in the Presidential boardroom crackles, with everyone doing their best to look like they belong. Around the long table are the lead members of Union’s SGA, and around the edges of […]
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Perspectives: Harding vs. Trump
“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes” said Adolf Hitler, at some point briefly before invading Russia in the dead of Winter. While he […]
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PERSPECTIVE: A call for argumentative empathy
By Eddie Echeverria I have a couple of friends on Facebook who are political opposites. One is a diehard liberal, the other a diehard conservative. They have very different opinions about the way the government […]
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PERSPECTIVE: Why I hate men holding the door for me
It’s 10:30 a.m. on a Wednesday and that strange hush has descended on campus when all 4,000 of Union’s students have been swallowed up by massive academic buildings whose peaceful outer facade belies the notion […]
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PERSPECTIVE: Reflections on a trip to Israel
Josiah McGee is a sophomore political science major who visited Israel this summer. Shortly after visiting Israel, I learned that Hallel-Yaffa Ariel, a girl barely a year older than my sister, was stabbed and murdered […]