Category: September 2018
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I Believe Women
Written by Ruby Clavey Illustrated by Alyssa Luongo When I left New Zealand and moved to Burlington, the culture shock was minimal. I made great friends and drank dope coffee. I loved the air of acceptance, that you could be who you are and love who you love. The only…
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Child of the Seventies
Written by Haley Clemens “Do you want to go to the knit shop or get the tree first?” I’m in the car with my mom, where some kind of interview is always happening. Sometimes we ourselves are the subjects. Sometimes it’s other people: coworkers, my hometown friends, the church ladies,…
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What Might Have Been Ustler Street
Written by Gillianne Ross The day started off with my purse strap breaking. I was three feet from the bus door, which was closed and pulling away, and there it went, crashing to the pavement at my feet. Now, I usually have a sewing kit (because I am that type…
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“No one in D.C. likes Trump”: A view of the people living in the nation’s capital
Written by Rachael Elmy “No one in D.C. likes Trump.” This was one of the first things my cousin said to me when I moved to D.C. for two months for an internship. I was surprised. I expected the political spectrum to be evenly split, despite all the protests that…
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Birth of a Loonaverse
Written by Riley Price Every now and then, an artist or group comes onto their music scene and kinda shakes up how it’s all done. For the K-Pop scene, one of the most recent culprits of this is Seoul-based Blockberry Creative’s girl group, Loona (officially stylized as LOOΠΔ). The pop…
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Adjusting to College
Written by Hannah Paquette I made the final trip from the car up the green, carpeted stairway and turned the corner into my new room. The space was larger than I expected it to be for a triple, but I was still unsure of how living with different people would be.…
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Your Horoscope for September
Written by the Chiv Astrologists Aries (March 21- April 19) Welcome back to school aries! We already know you’re going to kill it this year. You probably made 500 new friends and don’t need your old ones— but remember classes are still a thing, Your professors asked we tell you…
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Songs of Loss
Written by Artemis Walsh Music affects us. I don’t think that’s a controversial statement. But there are times when certain songs connect to a very unplanned and unexpected feeling. When my best friend committed suicide, it threw me onto the rocks. I had lost not only my closest friend, but…
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From Hostel to High Life
Written by Gillian English It smelled absolutely putrid. It was as if twelve men had run a marathon through a swamp and put their sneakers in a microwave. And then maybe took a shit inside the sneakers too, just for fun. That was what the hostel smelled like. It was…
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A Larger World
Written by Walter Hill In Montreal, I am an alien. I am a transplant student, a long-term vacationer. On some days, hiding my foreignness is easy. Most everyone in Montreal speaks some degree of English; McDonalds and H&M abound. There is a thin whisper of America in the capitalism, television,…
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