Author: Jade Hosick
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A discussion on celebrity relationships
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Celebrity relationships are something that everyone talks about regardless of what age bracket you fall in. Everyone always seems to know what’s going on with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and their on-again off-again relationship, my dad even started a conversation with me about Miley Cyrus and her relationship with Liam Hemsworth. With their faces…
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Let’s talk about consent, baby!
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The school year is starting up, and thus, the amount of people experiencing university culture is going to be increasing once again. People are living away from home for the first time, and are going to be discovering a life of independence that they are not used to. Maybe people have their own room,…
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Harvard admission offer rescinded because of tweets
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On Monday June 17, it was reported that Harvard had rescinded the offer of admission of a boy named Kyle Kashuv. Kashuv is a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, and the ivy league school retracted their offer of admission after becoming aware of his alleged racist behaviour that had occurred before…
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It’s 2019, it’s not okay to use “gay panic” as a criminal defense
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On June 19, it was announced that New York became the sixth state to outlaw a criminal defense noted as “gay and trans panic defense.” This bill will now prevent people who are charged with homicide to justify the murder based on the discovery of the victim’s gender identity or sexual orientation. With the fiftieth…
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