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December 18, 2025

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Category: Opinion – Campus

Sep282017DWC Through the Eyes of a Freshman: Learning to Embrace Civ Despite Its Challenges

  by Andrea Traietti ’21 Opinion Staff The Development of Western Civilization. More lovingly just referred to as Civ. For most freshmen, Civ is unlike anything they have ever experienced before. Between lengthy syllabi, long reading assignments, and two-hour long classes, Civ can be quite the challenge for a college freshman trying to adjust to […]

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Sep282017A Light in the Darkness: Students Have Conflicting Views on the New Torch

  by Lela Biggus ’18 Opinion Staff It seems today that our world is more divided and broken than ever. Humanity resides in a state of disillusioned acceptance. We are battered by natural disasters, haunted by the persistent droning on of news notifications, and numbed to the noise of it all.It is as if we […]

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