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Staff Editorial: Activism starts with awareness: Read local news and fight local fights

We call on the WashU administration to fill that information gap with improved access to all local media for the WashU community.

“Work hard, play (in a dream magic land) hard” 

Ball pit or no ball pit, we have to start playing. At WashU, I often feel pressure to package every moment into 100% of one thing: condensed work sprints, expedited friend time, or complete rest. Playing is none and all of these. By being so nebulous, play lets our brains get to work, while we grow closer with our friends and give the ticking-time clock of stress a rest. 

| Contributing Writer

What if the tea stays in the pot?

Saying goodbye to gossip isn’t quick or easy. I have to decide what is unnecessary drama or rumors and what is essential, insightful information to share with my friends.

| Junior Forum Editor

‘I like you (as a friend)! Now say it back (as a friend)!’: Why we should all have friend crushes

Even amongst those who don’t admit it, I’m convinced we all have friend crushes — the person across from you in class who makes a comment that really resonates with you, the person donning the World’s Coolest Outfit™, your endearing neighbor who gets millions of packages delivered. They exist!

| Contributing Writer

‘Accidates’ are ruining relationships

The amount of times I’ve accidentally gone on dates I thought were chances to make friends is both excessive and embarrassing. I created a term for it: the “accidate.”

| Contributing Writer

The power of sex: ‘Babygirl’

Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl” is more than Harris Dickinson shirtless, more than Nicole Kidman having orgasms, and more than a guilty pleasure. “Babygirl” is a bold display of female fantasy through its eroticism and vulnerability.

| Contributing Writer

Staff Editorial: Affinity group appreciation should not only be annual

As WashU students, we have the opportunity to interact with a variety of people from different backgrounds. We simply need to seek opportunities to learn about them in clubs, campus seminars, DEI programming, and classes, to name a few.

FKA Twigs turns us eusexual

In the last few seconds of the music video for “Perfect Stranger,” released last October by FKA twigs, three sentences flash on the screen. They read: “Eusexua is a practice. […]

| Contributing Writer

‘Hey, stranger (no, really)’: We should all be talking to randos

Strangers can become crucial to our social and emotional health … Not only do we preemptively undervalue these interactions, we also underestimate how much we enjoy conversations with, and just generally like, strangers. 

| Contributing Writer

Staff Editorial: Goodbye, Mudd Field

For the next three years, get excited as the view of our beautiful Mudd Field turns into a true mud field … This is all compounded by the fact that most current students will graduate before the finished project is available for them to enjoy and benefit from.

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