Category: November 2016
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Hotness and the Hellraiser
My Tinder is like bittersweet purgatory for those willing and those who just board on the train—innocent and fragile to what is coming ahead of them. I’ve decided to meet up with a boy I’ve been talking to for quite sometime. He’s blonde so I ask him if he’s in…
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A Champlain College Student’s 6-Step Guide to Preparing for Vermont’s Secession from the Union
BUILD A WALL of emotional support. Seceding from a nation requires a strong, tall and impenetrable sense of community. Before you even think about seceding, you have to block off those negative thoughts. We don’t want to be on the fence about this before we go through with it. SPEND…
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Rise of the Talking Pineapple
A new generation of students is rising above the ashes of the old-school standards and it is looking like shit. Education went from teaching a student new skills to the intent of teaching a student test-taking skills. Tests fucking blow. Standardized tests have wreaked havoc on a once moderately sound…
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Social Media and Your Job
We’ve always been told to be careful what we put online, be careful who sees it. Don’t post anything you might regret. But if you’ve spent your middle school years on social media, you know as well as I do that there’s at least something you regret out there in…
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New York Protest
Saturday, November 12th · 1pm · 1 Pierrepont Plaza, Brooklyn, NY “Fuck Hillary!” That’s what I heard shouted out of a truck in front of Hillary Clinton’s headquarters at two female volunteers from the campaign. The women didn’t even flinch. They were focused on moving everything from their desks to…
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Bhutan
Nicole Stratis is a Environmental Policy major at Champlain College. This is what she saw in the beautiful world of Bhutan.
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Thanksgiving Breakup
I didn’t really date in high school. Social awkwardness and sarcasm as a defense mechanism doesn’t exactly equate to teenage boys falling all over you. By the time I was a junior I’d kissed exactly two people (one was for a school play) and been on a grand total of four…
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An American Thanksgiving
I was almost two years old when my family immigrated from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to New York. My mom and dad came to America and worked in the city doing odd jobs at first and then as maids, janitors, and engineers. When we first came here we shared a small…
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To Glorify Beauty
Alphonse Mucha once said, “The aim of art is to glorify beauty.” The artists of Instagram seem to agree, so long as beauty is found in the female, semi-nude body. Whether it’s tame and cute or lewd and erotic, there are plenty of artists in the digital realm who predominantly…
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I Made a Game and It Was Bad
The overhead monitor’s demonic glow screamed at our rag tag, sleep deprived four man team. I ran from one computer to another in a desperate attempt to duct tape our hollow Frankenstein of a game together. The glow was thanks to a large countdown timer that hung over our heads…
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