It is no well kept secret that in the United States many people drink before it is legal for them to do so. Isn’t it strange? You can bartend at 18, but not drink?
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What was the last piece of media you consumed? Was it a piece of music or maybe a film? Or it could be something entirely different: maybe a short-form video or a news article. Many of us don’t really think about the media we consume. We live in a consumer-first culture, one in which we continuously take in new content without reflecting on it.
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Over winter break, I read a highly engaging, yet worrying book about superhuman artificial intelligence, a technological advancement theoretically in reach within the next decade. “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All” by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares reviews the very real dangers of superhuman AI, and explains why it should be avoided at all costs. The book may be grimly titled, but its title serves a purpose.
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“Bridgerton” is one of our modern television juggernauts, with it being one of Netflix's few remaining crown-jewels in terms of traffic for the platform. The premise of the show is simple: a historical romance anthology, with each season focusing on a different couple, within a vaguely Regency-era London that is racially diverse.
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For the average college student, life can feel like a constant balancing act. Time passes quickly, and many of us become overwhelmed by the growing weight of responsibilities. For college men in particular, this pressure can build rapidly. Taking time to sit with our struggles can feel like a burden, so instead, we often avoid reflection and push through discomfort.
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You have probably used artificial intelligence today without realizing it. Not Googling a question and reading the Gemini response, or even opening up ChatGPT, within the regular apps you open every morning. Spotify deciding what song plays next. Google Maps rerouting you around traffic. Instagram choosing which post you see first. None of that feels blatantly like artificial intelligence, but it is, and it is constantly running. Data centers around the world are burning through electricity and water at an unsustainable rate.
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Okay let’s be real for a second. Most people have seen “Heartstopper” or “Heated Rivalry,” and its all fun and games when cute boys are on your screen making out but do many non-gays really understand the depths of what growing up gay or discovering your sexuality is really like? Let’s take a peek into the lives of LGBTQIA+ members' childhoods for just a sec, well at least mine.
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Recently, I was informed about a function of the library, by a professor, that I had been previously unaware of. Through the library here on campus, students are able to digitally access external journal publications, such as The New York Times. Through this feature students can read text scans of articles from such publications from as recent as the same day.
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Human beings have been on this planet for a very long time. Modern humans, as we are today, emerged roughly 300,000 years ago. During this time, we have both built and destroyed. Empires have risen to great power and turned into dust, and within all of this time, there have been periods of great flourishing and misery.
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There comes a time in everyone’s life when you face the realization that you’re not a kid anymore, and you haven’t been for a while. At that moment, two choices present themselves to you. You can either give into the little things in life that may not be the most responsible choice, but they make you happy, or you could live life like how society tells you to, and fear the public’s opinions.
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How far should a society go in order to correct a power imbalance between groups of people? What happens when the side effects of this power imbalance are ignored? On one scale, it is casual; the president of the United States insulted the women’s olympic hockey team, meanwhile the men’s hockey team erupted in laughter at this degradation of achievement by female athletes competing in the same sport.
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Emily Brontë’s classic gothic tale of obsession and vengeance, set in the windy Yorkshire moors, has structurally metamorphosed into the most recent cinematic adaptation (and sensation, might I add) of “Wuthering Heights.”
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Have you ever thought about spending a semester abroad? Germany may not have made it onto your top three list, right? The combination of lederhosen, beer, techno and half-timbered houses is not exactly…enchanting. In the unlikely cases where Germany does find its way onto the list Frankfurt rarely does. For many, it’s either “the airport,” or “that city with bankers.”
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Beginning way back in 2022, new trainees were brought into talent agencies Hybe and Geffens “pop academy,” a place meant to form the world's next global girl group. The goal of the academy was to take these young women and train them in dance, vocal and stage presence skills, so that they may rise above the competition and take the performance industry by storm.
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The Accessibility Resource Center at the College offers an opportunity for students with disabilities to receive accommodations in whatever regard they require. This is a necessary resource to have in order to maintain the College’s mission of Division of Excellence to persons with disabilities. ARC does not offer the opportunity and help that it has said to allow, but there is still room to improve and truly offer a fully inclusive and easier process for students struggling.
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Onika Tanya Miraj-Petty, known famously as Nicki Minaj, has been dubbed by many as the “Queen of Rap” since the early 2010s. Beginning with her debut album “Pink Friday,” Nicki has given audiences unique verses with a level of swagger that showed the world that she is unapologetically herself. While her talent can’t be questioned, her character has always put fans in a strange position.
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Smoking was fairly normalized in 1950s America. About 45% of American adults smoked cigarettes. A 1951 British survey found that 87% of male doctors were regular smokers. At this time, there were more studies linking smoking to lung cancer.
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Celebrity opinions during times of political and social tension have long been controversial. This is understandably so, as they do not face the typical experiences of the average citizen without money and fame to spare.
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When “28 Days Later” first came out decades ago, it was instantly iconic with its reinvention of zombies as red-eyed, rage-fuelled monsters that run at terrifying speeds instead of slowly lurch, a type of zombie that would become popularly known as a ‘runner.’
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Hispanic immigrants in this country never had it easy. With U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and the things people say about hispanic immigrants on social media and in the news, it created waves of more and more people spreading anti-Latino rhetoric. Even though it's nothing new, President Donald Trump's administration has made it increasingly harder to ignore.
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