The Morality of Voting: Democracy is a Messy Business Emily Bruzzo Editor-in-Chief For me, voting is an issue of morality. I don’t think we should explain away voting as merely a civic duty or exercise or right. When we vote,… Read More ›
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My Modern & Less-Deadly Seven Deadly Sins Emily Bruzzo Editor-in-Chief There’s a presidential election afoot, and that means the moral arbiters are out to play. How curious Americans are: We seem only to be concerned with the rectitude of our… Read More ›
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New Years are getting old Emily Bruzzo Editor-in-Chief Sometimes, I wish there were an app for telling the future. Really, I’m no different than those poor souls who threw their money at charlatans in the 1800s, or those lost fools… Read More ›
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The words ain’t that bad Emily Bruzzo Editor-in-Chief We’ve come a long way since August, readers. At the beginning of the semester I wrote a column — it was more like a desperate letter begging you for sympathy — asking… Read More ›
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Warning: This column is about nothing Emily Bruzzo Editor-in-Chief No one reads this column — except for my Mom; and my Dad when she forwards it to his inbox. Essentially, this is the most uncensored my writing will be for… Read More ›
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Womanhood of the world Emily Bruzzo Editor-in-Chief I’ve gotten to know a lot of great women over the course of my 21 years. Perhaps these associations are because I’m a human of the XX variety, and they are only natural… Read More ›
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Psychosis of the urgent Emily Bruzzo Editor-in-Chief Recently, my psyche has found itself knee-deep in the introspective waters of a little pond I like to call REALITY *echo*. That’s right, readers, life greeted me with a firm handshake, tipped its… Read More ›
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Risking Risks Emily Bruzzo Editor-in-Chief I’ve been doing a lot of thinking recently about what it means to take risks. I’m 21 years old. I don’t drink — except for cranberry pomegranate juice, iced lattes and too much Mountain Dew…. Read More ›
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Our fourth branch is in need of a check Emily Bruzzo Editor-in-Chief Last week, one of my colleagues at The Carolinian wrote on, what he deemed, the politics of outrage. He lambasted the American media culture and offered, what I… Read More ›
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Growing Pains Emily Bruzzo Editor-in-Chief We got hate mail the other day. I suppose it wasn’t so much hate mail as it was an impassioned critical analysis of our work. But one might argue that’s simply the politically correct way… Read More ›