The Collegian
Thursday, January 08, 2026

Opinion


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OPINION: Stewards of fire

Gottwald students are uniquely positioned to ask and answer some of the most cutting-edge ethical questions conceived in science. However, these are questions unlikely to appear on exams.


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OPINION: The art of the outro

Any good album tells a story. And if I’ve learned anything from my journalism classes this semester, it’s that the beginning and end of a story tell you what it’s really about. In music, that ending is the outro.


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OPINION: Seasonal soup selection; A serious matter

I knew I needed a soup that was extra hearty. Something to warm me up after my long walk from the New Fraternity Row parking lot to B-school. Something to remind me of French fine dining to motivate me to grind out that last exam before heading home for the holidays.


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OPINION: The value of discourse

Democracy doesn’t die when laws are passed or repealed; it dies when dialogue ends. It dies when we lose faith that our fellow Americans, however wrong we believe them to be, are still capable of good faith. It dies when we stop believing that our America can include those that disagree with us.


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OPINION: A Charlie Kirk postmortem

On Sept. 10, Charlie Kirk was assassinated in one of the most grisly acts of political violence in recent memory, and the response from talking heads has been far too myopic to properly understand Kirk and his legacy.


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Music Monday: A Glimmer from the north

Glimmer is what you get when four New Yorkers who’ve honed their musicianship come together. The band has now been together since March 2023 or for about two and a half years, Jeff Moore, the band’s founder and composer, said during a phone interview with WDCE.


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I watched Diddy on trial, but found myself guilty

From race to attractiveness, how a defendant looks matters to juries. Defense teams and defendants often have to work against stereotypes about appearances to ensure a fair trial, but prosecutors work against them in attempts to expose and emphasize them instead. 


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OPINION | The marvel of our universe

The multiverse theory, largely perpetuated by movies in the last decade and undoubtedly salient in American culture, in all its fun and exploratory possibilities, asks us to consider the nature of our universe critically. 


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Music Mondays: Tweaker, Hurry Up Tomorrow

In my Spotify turmoil, I unveiled a mystery on the platform. And solved it for myself! I was perusing the platform in an attempt to broaden my taste, when I came across a song with an impossibly exceptional title.


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Music Mondays: Four dollar love

Sometimes falling in love is unexpected, sometimes it comes from a brief meeting and sometimes it’s a combination of the two mixed together in a crusty cardboard box nestled between a few other crusting cardboard boxes.