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Chappell Roan: ‘The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess’
By Courtney VanAuken Image from Chappell Roan’s Instagram, @chappellroan If you aren’t already familiar with Chappell Roan, it’s only a matter of time before you start hearing about her. Chappell Roan...
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Switching to analog media: The effect of solar storms
Courtesy of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory via NASA Looking to learn something, I flipped through The New Yorker, skipping my usual comics and arts and entertainment sections. A headline caught my...
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Whether the weather is good…
Editorials featured in the Forum section are solely the opinions of their individual authors. Courtesy of Wikimedia Creative Commons via user daveyninWould you believe us if we said that the day this...
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The origin of the Farnam Tuna Melt
Illustration by Nora Sweeney-Gladen “Exchange Expert” by Courtney VanAuken “CMU’s First Lady” Farnam Jahanian: the man of the people. Today he is known as the beloved president of Carnegie Mellon...
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Everybody loves somebody (unless you are a student at CMU)
Editorials featured in the Forum section are solely the opinions of their individual authors. Courtesy of Wikimedia Creative Commons via user Cbaile19 One of the lesser-known degree pathways offered...
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CMU holds Spring farmers market
On Tuesday, April 9, the Spring Farmers Market returned to Carnegie Mellon. Vendors at the Spring Farmers Market included Sinful Sweets, The Refillery, and PGH Dumplingz. Baked True North sold a...
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Editorials featured in the Forum section are solely the opinions of their individual authors. When I was accepted into Carnegie Mellon University, I never got the opportunity to fly out to...
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My Letterboxd most recently watched
Courtesy of Variety This week hit me like a truck. Working on the run-crew for “A Little Night Music” on top of a week of big deadlines made it impossible to make it off campus and do anything this...
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An appraisal of parasocial relationships
I am not engaged to Alex Wolff, I am not engaged to Alex Wolff, I am not engaged to Alex Wolff, I am not engaged to Alex Wolff. With developments in how we connect with each other, lines have become...
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‘Challengers’ review
Image from Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures SPOILER WARNING: I spoil the movie (no more than the trailer already does). When I first saw the trailer for “Challengers,” my expectations were set high. I...
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