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Shadow Academy’s first album was released this year to great success
By Milo Openshaw | May 11Shadow Academy is a near-perfect album.
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Letter from the editor | May 8th
By Liz McLane | May 8Have you ever seen a child sabotage a game of cornhole?
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Western students react to recent indoor mask mandate lift
By Sophie Kashman | May 8Western Washington University lifted its campus-wide mask mandate on April 11, leaving students with a decision to mask or unmask.
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Review of Who Cares?, Rex Orange County’s newest album
By Milo Openshaw | May 5Rex Orange County’s new album Who Cares? doesn’t contain any new ideas from Alexander O’Connor except for a collaboration with Tyler the Creator returning to his roots, but it’s enjoyable nonetheless.
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Review of Chloe and the Next 20th Century by Father John Misty
By Milo Openshaw | April 26“Chloe and the Next 20th Century” was probably one of the biggest surprises to me this year.
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Review of Bronco by Orville Peck
By Milo Openshaw | April 16Orville Peck, the king of the cowboy masquerade, is back with another incredible album. Bronco, released April 8, 2022, is one of the best albums released in the past year. Every time I play it, my friends roll their eyes. “It’s country music,” they say.
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Letter from the editor | April 13
By Cameron Martinez | April 13The Interdisciplinary Science Building, the newest of Western Washington University’s academic structures, is a modern building in every sense of the word. From its sleek angles to vibrant open spaces, it is the optimal building for academic pursuits. But the real modern treasure of the building is none other than the bathrooms.
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Journalist speaks to being Black in a white-dominated field
By Riley Weeks | April 7At 28, Brazile is the deputy online managing editor for KUOW, the Puget Sound region’s #1 radio station for news. She is also the president of the Seattle Association of Black Journalists, an organization that acts as a resource for Black journalists in the area, as well as provides scholarships and networking opportunities. Often, Brazile has to remind herself to take a step back and take it all in.
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Opinion | Self-Defense on YouTube and TikTok is harder than it looks
By Taras McCurdie | March 22Regardless of who someone is or what they look like, everyone is susceptible to being attacked. In Washington during 2020, 29% of cases involved an offender and 26% involved a victim between the ages of 20-29, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Crime Data Explorer. Seventy-eight percent of the cases involved a male offender while 55% involved male victims and 44% involved female victims.
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Opinion | Ukraine invasion: why students should care
By Max Larsen and CJ Tonnes | March 19The Russian invasion of Ukraine has, undoubtedly, been the most dominant news story in the world. It has been both shocking and unsurprising to the rest of the world, and what many want right now is global support for Ukraine and its people.
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Opinion - Removing mask mandates could come back to bite us
By Max Larsen | March 10States across the nation have begun removing their mask mandates in varying severity over the last few weeks and our own Washington State will do the same come March.
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Letter from the editor | March 7
By Katie McNabb | March 7Here are three facts about me completely out of context that will only make sense after you finish reading this. Fact number one: I tend to be very late to every popular trend. Fact number two: I’m very committed to my morning routine, almost religiously. Fact number three: I have recently become obsessed with Wordle.
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Letter from the editor | March 3
By Al Hartt | March 4Was “Cats” (2019) actually as bad as the public remembers? I set out to answer this question and determine if “Cats” truly was as terrible as theater-goers claimed or if it was a campy, fun musical adaptation that audiences in 2019 just didn’t get.
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Letter from the editor | Feb. 28
By CJ Tonnes | February 27Metaverses are virtual worlds in which you can have meetings, socialize or play games. The commercials during the sizable game made it seem like you could do these things in a world made of purple light while being a tiger, large dog or whatever creature suits you that day. The Metaverse is not real in two senses.
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Letter from the editor | Feb. 21
By Julia Brigolin | February 20I’ve thought long and hard about what I’ve wanted to write, and I found myself coming back to this topic time and time again: the thoughts I have about the state of the world and what “normal” is supposed to mean in response to it. When I say “normal,” what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?
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Opinion | Local police use for-profit company accused of stymying Black Lives Matter movement goals
By Carolyn Stewart | February 15The summer of 2020 saw the streets of cities and towns across the United States swell with demonstrators rallying for racial justice and against police violence. The Black-led revolt in the U.S. catalyzed global movements against policing with millions marching across the world. The protests demanded the abolition of the police. Since that summer the public has turned a more critical eye toward policing, and elected officials began to discuss reforms.
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Letter from the editor | Feb. 14
By Liz McLane | February 14So, naturally, I combined my expertise for shitty films with the knowledge that we’re all at different places mentally this Valentine’s Day. And BAM! I created a list that offers an easy, distracting and fun activity for us all. It’s my love letter (get it, because it’s Valentine’s Day? Love? Love letter? Like a Valentine. Get it?) from me to you.
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Electric vehicles may be the future, but not yet
By Max Larsen | February 8For as much as the electric car market has grown in the past decade, the future of transportation remains as uncertain as life itself.
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Letter from the editor | Feb. 6
By Milo Openshaw | February 6“Perfume” by Patrick Suskind is a book about a serial killer who is motivated by his acute sense of smell to try to create the ultimate perfume that will make everyone fall in love with him. All serial killers are incels – yes, we know this – but why perfume?
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Letter from the editor | Jan. 31
By Cameron Martinez | January 31On Jan. 20 2022, Mars Incorporated changed the design of their iconic animated M&M’s. In particular, the shoes worn by the “female” M&M’s.
