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Talking to Trump People
In the days leading up to the debate at Washington University, the usually taboo topic of politics was one of the only things people could talk about. Although Missouri is a mostly red state, Washington University is more liberal due to the large number of students from the East and West coasts. If someone is…
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Striking: Padding a Salary or Righting a Wrong?
When the Chicago teachers’ strike came to a close, 25,000 teachers returned to teach 350,000 students after eight days off of school. The ramifications of the strike went beyond simply a reduced number of instructional days for students. Working parents had to scramble to arrange a place for their children to go during school hours.…
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The Tenure Tradeoff
It’s Complicated Universities are peculiar organizations. A student’s relationship to a university can take multiple forms; but fundamentally, we, as students, are its customers. On paper, we pay to prepare for the rest of our lives, but anyone who has had a work-study job or a research assistantship will tell you that students are also…
