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Why I’m proud of my arrest at the Keystone XL pipeline protest

March 13, 2014 6:44 pm0 comments
Why I’m proud of my arrest at the Keystone XL pipeline protest

My last weekend was pretty memorable, to say the least. On Sunday, March 2, I was arrested at the White House while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. I was part of a mass youth march and peaceful civil disobedience movement called XL Dissent. More than 1,200 people took to the […]

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Letter to the Editor – 3.07.14

March 7, 2014 6:51 pm0 comments

We just can’t let the historical inaccuracies in the February 24, 2014 Mount Holyoke News feature article, Strengthening title and ties: metamorphosis of the sister class, pass without comment. The notion of creating a formal Connection between members of Mount Holyoke classes who graduate fifty years apart was not established […]

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10 things I learned in my first semester

March 6, 2014 5:00 pm0 comments

1. Home and the importance of family: When I was a freshman in high school I’d often remark that I wished life had a ‘fast-forward’ button so I could just graduate and go off to college. After four vigorous years of high school, I travelled over 7,000 miles away from […]

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The future of assisted reproductive technology

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Recently, the Gender Studies Department on campus has hosted a number of events on the topic of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). As a queer woman, this technology is very relevant to my life—unless I choose to adopt a child, my future family will almost certainly be created in part by […]

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My experience at the Keystone XL Pipeline protest

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Over a thousand students from schools across the country took to the streets on Sunday, March 1 and marched from Georgetown University to the White House, protesting the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline. I had the incredible opportunity of being one of them. We marched to the chants of “Hey, Obama, […]

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Letter to the Editor: J-Show ’14 a fair representation of the class of 2015?

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There are two types of humor in comedy. The first involves the comedian laughing with the audience while the second involves pointing fingers and laughing at the audience. Junior Show 2014 belonged to the latter category. Like everything related to school spirit this year, it had a Harry Potter theme […]

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