OPINION: President Chodosh’s first NCAA meeting agenda

With future NCAA Presidents Council meetings to attend, CMC President Hiram Chodosh could use some counseling on what to say, writes Jasper Davidoff PO ’23. So, he took it upon himself to draft an agenda.

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OPINION: The multi-dimensional facade of the “pop-up experience”

You may have seen the photos. Positively blissful young people frolic through fields of giant daisies, pose next to enormous gummy bears, and fling handfuls of colorful sprinkles into the air against the backdrop of glossy pink tiles made to emulate the “sprinkle pool” of some childhood dream. These scenes

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OPINION: Thoughts and prayers are lovely, but if you’re truly devout, you need to take action

I spent 12 years in a Catholic education system. I’m no longer religious, but the close connections I maintain with people still in the church and the duration I spent as a devout member of it qualify me to make the following statement. If there is indeed a God, then

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OPINION: Every Titanic has its iceberg: Trump will regret removing Sessions

A gigantic ship, christened with so much promise, is on its maiden voyage. It’s billed as unsinkable, so much so that it’s almost blasphemous to even suggest this ship could sink, so much so that no one’s bothered to check if there are enough lifeboats. But every Titanic has its

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OPINION: CNN’s Jim Acosta suffers the negligence of a post-truth politician

In an ironic turn, President Donald Trump barred CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta on account of supreme insolence. Silly though it may be, the danger of a disconnected post-truth politics, where emotional appeals supersede facts and reason, is that a free society cannot long survive untruth and rampant distrust.

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