Author / Abby Baka
Abby Baka is a freshman in the College of Arts & Sciences. She can be reached at abbybaka@wustl.edu.
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The Evolution Of A Campus Conservative Revisited
I arrived at Wash U in 2015 a doe-eyed Republican, having spent my first eighteen years in perennially red South Dakota. I grew up among climate change deniers, gay marriage opposers, and gun enthusiasts. I was practically weaned on Fox News. Though I managed to emerge from this environment with some socially liberal views (primarily…
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The Evolution of a Campus Conservative
I am a conservative. But I would like to clarify: I am not a racist or homophobe, I acknowledge that the planet’s temperature is rising, and I do not want to build a wall. My home state, South Dakota, is a consistently red state. It has voted Democrat in a presidential election only four times…
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