Author / Isabel Torres
Isabel Torres'20 studies in the College of Arts & Sciences. She can be reached at itorres@wustl.edu.
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(Con)Tested Identity
Before I even got to the main portion of the SAT, a question stressed me out. “What is your race/ethnicity?” jumped out at me, taunting me with the simplistic responses underneath. Filling out “white” would feel like denying my heritage, claiming that my dad’s side of the family was irrelevant to who I am, but…
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Our Undemocratic Democracy
As a junior in high school, I wrote an entire research paper on why the Electoral College was good for the American system of government. Back then, I believed that the Founding Fathers’ end goal of keeping a demagogue from gaining power in the U.S was a noble one, even if the distrust in democracy…
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