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  • Impossible Trinity

    The most important election in St. Louis was decided in nail-biting fashion on March 5th, when twelve-year incumbent Lewis Reed retained his position as President of the Board of Aldermen (BOA) by winning the Democratic primary. Reed won the primary with only 35 percent of the vote; his two opponents, Missouri State Senator Jamilah Nasheed…

  • Proud To Be In St. Louis: WashU’s Brand And The City’s Reputation

    “Why are you going to St. Louis?” [su_pullquote align=”right”]“Why are you going to St. Louis?”[/su_pullquote] It was a question I was asked often when I announced to the family and friends closest to me that I would be starting at Washington University in the Fall of 2018. Coming from the Northeast, a region abounding with…

  • Dissonance

    There’s a time and place to be a proud Wash U student. That place might be during a Christmas gathering with family, or when a student researcher makes a major breakthrough. But in those places where the Wash U sprawl has gentrified the area, or where drunken college students disrupt the peace, it’s best to…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Economic Policy: Putting “Magic” in the Campaign

    The Oct. 9 debate between the economic advisers to Trump and Clinton may have lacked allegations of sexual harassment, threats of jailing the opposing party’s nominee, and a television audience numbering in the tens of millions, but it did contain allegations of “magic” and plenty of wild hand gesticulations. Early in the afternoon on Oct.…

  • My Approach to Academics, In Review

    The following are two pieces I’ve written over the past few years that, when put together, provide a chronicle of how the pursuit of multidisciplinarity has shaped my college experience so far. The first is an editorial that I wrote for my high school newspaper during the spring of my senior year. The second article,…