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OPINION: WWU safety resource hub
By Avery Rossman | May 12Need advice on how to stay safe on WWU's campus? The Front has you covered with a campus-safety Q&A.
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OPINION: Friday’s Film Forecast
By Elaina Johnson | May 12The Front's Opinions Editor Elaina Johnson is back with another Friday Film Forecast. This week calls for Nat Faxon and Jim Rash’s 2013 film: "The Way, Way Back."
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OPINION: WWU residential hall review
By Avery Rossman | May 10Living in a college residence hall is a crazy concept when you really think about it. We live in close quarters and are surrounded by strangers all the time, all trying to live on their own while existing together.
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OPINION: MUNA is the queer representation we need
By Cordelia Longo | May 9I was scrolling through TikTok a few months ago when I first heard the song "Silk Chiffon" by a band called MUNA. I was drawn to its danceability and joyfulness, and I’ve since fallen in love with MUNA and the queer representation it has to offer.
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OPINION: Friday’s Film Forecast
By Elaina Johnson | May 5Opinions Editor Elaina Johnson is back for another Friday's Film Forecast. This week calls for Kelly Fremon Craig’s 2023 film “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.”
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OPINION: Friday’s Film Forecast
By Elaina Johnson | April 28Opinions Editor Elaina Johnson is back with another Friday Film Forecast. This week she's reviewing the 2020 film "Promising Young Woman."
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OPINION: On Yom HaShoah, the Jewish community reflects on resistance
By Cordelia Longo | April 27Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is a time when Jewish communities come together to reflect on acts of resistance and resilience.
Campus
Dancing through life
April 24Born and raised in the Philippines, Angela Sebastian, who began dancing at 4 years old, is now an instructor in Western Washington University’s dance department.
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Letter from the editor: Entertainment or exploitation?
By Isabella Loy | April 21I cringe whenever my parents share an embarrassing childhood story about me at the dinner table. Who wants to relive the time they were dragged out of a store because their mom wouldn’t buy them a Care Bear?
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A college student’s guide to thriving with ADHD
By Avery Rossman | April 21ADHD. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. I have ADHD, so I understand the vast struggles of those with ADHD – especially students. The Front’s “A college student's guide to thriving with ADHD” is here to help.
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OPINION: Friday’s Film Forecast
By Elaina Johnson | April 21Opinions Editor Elaina Johnson is back with another Friday Film Forecast. This week she'll be talking about Ben Affleck’s new film, “Air.”
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OPINION: Indigenous environmental activism is the best environmental activism
By Cordelia Longo | April 17The Lhaq’temish (Lummi) tribe’s fight to bring Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut the orca back to the Puget Sound was successful. Non-Indigenous environmental activists can learn from their stories.
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OPINION: Friday’s Film Forecast
By Elaina Johnson | April 14The Front's opinions editor Elaina Johnson discusses the 2022 horror movie "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" in her weekly column: Friday's Film Forecast.
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Letter from the editor: How to give a meaningful apology
By Tallie Johnson | April 13Spring 2023 City Life Editor Tallie Johnson shares how to stop handing out apologies like trading cards and answers the question: how do we give a genuine apology?
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OPINION: Friday’s Film Forecast
By Elaina Johnson | April 7The Front's opinions editor Elaina Johnson discusses "Juno" in her weekly opinion column: Friday's Film Forecast.
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OPINION: It’s time to educate the next generation on the world’s biggest threat – climate change
By Katie McNabb | March 18Climate-related deaths are increasing globally at a terrifying rate. Whether it’s the result of food insecurity, extreme weather events, lack of access to clean water, rising temperatures or any of the other dangerous side effects of climate change, people are dying. Yet there are still many who have never received any formal education in environmental science.
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OPINION: 'Queer' is an empowerment
By Madison Roper | February 4The year is 2009, and Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” blasts from the radio. My friend and I are listening to the song, blissfully unaware of the innuendo that is cherry chapstick.
Letters to the Editor
Response to the "We need to change the stigma around sexual assault" column
December 14The assertion that Bellingham is an intolerant liberal echo chamber is made often, and it can be valid – but more realistically, many members of the Bellingham community feel that they cannot speak against social warriors. The silent majority of Western students are not committed to the brand of social justice that some Western students are selling.
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Response to "We need to change the stigma around sexual assault" column
December 14Addressing the topic of sexual assault in an ethical and comprehensive manner requires diligence, empathy, sensitivity, courage and nuance. It is a difficult topic for anyone to write about. As a disclaimer, my perspective on the recent opinion piece is inevitably informed by my personal experience. I am fortunate: I have not experienced sexual assault.
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OPINION: Antisemitism is on the rise; Western needs to fight back
December 10On the week of Oct. 20, two antisemitic displays were found on the “free speech” board in the Viking Union. The first depicted an antisemitic caricature, and the second was the Nazi dog whistle “1488.” This understandably affected the Jewish student body at Western Washington University, and unfortunately, this kind of antisemitism is nothing new in our culture or at WWU.
