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Terms And Conditions Will Apply
Before the Fourth of July, I made a Facebook account for my summer job – I worked in Wash U’s Office of Scholar Programs and needed an account to invite scholars from the Class of 2023 to the official Facebook group of the Rodriguez Scholars Program. So I followed them, invited them all to the…
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Resolutions That Stick
My resolutions come to me as they please. I don’t set my sights firmly on one when the New Year comes around. Instead, they take a bit of time to crystallize out of thin air – kind of like brainstorming ideas for a WUPR piece. I’m here to advocate for letting resolutions come to you.…
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What I Have Learned About Memory From WILD
One month before WILD, a Wash U music event, my friend texted me: “Do you want to go to WILD with me?” It was a very popular event, but I only heard about it from my friend. “What is WILD?” Curiously, I asked my friend. It sounded wild, didn’t it? After being informed that Carly…
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Big Pooh Bear Is Watching You
You are more than a number. How many times have you heard that phrase ever since starting college? Hopefully not too many. But for China’s 1.4 billion citizens, a single number will not only define who they are, but also determine their way of life. These people will soon live in a chilling reality where…
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Table Talk
Watching the sunrise through the window, I remain in the same spot I first sat down in eighteen hours prior. The diner had cleared out except for my best friend and me in a booth, and the people working the early shift. The sound of the coffee brewing and our stomachs grumbling from a sugar…
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The Rhetoric of Dehumanization
On the evening of April 19, 2013, crowds in Boston cheered, waved American flags, and shouted, “USA! USA! We got him!” as Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken into custody. Mayor Thomas M. Menino was recorded saying that he hoped the court system “throws the book at [Tsarnaev]” by giving him the harshest sentence…
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Elonis v. United States: When Are Threats Free Speech?
“Fold up your [protection from abuse order] and put it in your pocket Is it thick enough to stop a bullet?” So wrote Anthony Elonis after his wife left him in 2010. Elonis took to Facebook with the pseudonym “Tone Dougie” to create rap lyrics laced with expletives in what he termed “therapeutic” writing. These…
