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An Open Letter to Sean Spicer

February 17, 2017• Opinions • One Comment

The Mouth of a Shark

February 17, 2017• Opinions • 2 Comments

no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well. -Warsan...

Punching Pepe: Meme Magic and Ethics Regarding Free Speech

February 15, 2017• Opinions • 4 Comments

The “alt-right,” a white supremacist movement that originated within extremist internet forums such as 4chan’s /pol/ in 2010, has...

Vintage Spice: Dave Bry Tells the Voice about Life with the White House Press Secretary

February 6, 2017• Opinions • One Comment

WIlliams St. Blues

December 13, 2016• Opinions • One Comment

I collect trash along my daily walk to campus from the Post Hill neighborhood of New London. Sometimes I collect as many as 20 gallons of...

Why the Voices of Arab Women are Critical in Education

December 13, 2016• Opinions

Google “Arab woman.” Click the “images” button. Ninety percent of the search results display expressionless, black-veiled portraits...

The Value of Protests on College Campuses

December 13, 2016• Opinions

In response to the results of the recent presidential election, students at Conn and many other colleges and universities across the nation have organized protests. While the administrators at some institutions condone these protests, others are more intransigent.

Black Friday: The Roots of Consumer Culture

December 13, 2016• Opinions

The 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street manages to capture the spiritless, frantic shopping that seizes people as early as Thanksgiving Day....

Remembering Fidel Castro

December 13, 2016• Opinions

Having reportedly survived six hundred attempts on his life from the CIA, Fidel Castro, Cuba’s leader famous for spearheading the...

Interview: The Appeal and Ascent of Donald Trump

November 22, 2016• Opinions • 2 Comments

In the wake of Donald Trump’s historic upset in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, The College Voice sat down with two Trump supporters: a white, middle-aged, college-educated, heterosexual married couple from a blue state in New England who cast their ballots for the Republican nominee on Nov. 8.