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An Open Letter to Sean Spicer

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Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to the Voice by Connecticut College alumni and has been signed by over 1,200 alumni and...

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Let’s Talk about Class

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“How much does your family make?” As if by instinct, nearly every student at this college might immediately furrow their brow in...

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An Open Letter to Sean Spicer

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The Mouth of a Shark

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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...

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Punching Pepe: Meme Magic and Ethics Regarding Free Speech

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

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WIlliams St. Blues

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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...

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Why the Voices of Arab Women are Critical in Education

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

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The Value of Protests on College Campuses

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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.

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Black Friday: The Roots of Consumer Culture

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

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Remembering Fidel Castro

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

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