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Opinions

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DREWEL: Please fund the arts

Izzy Fonfara Drewel, Executive Opinions Editor April 4, 2023
I first picked up the trumpet in sixth grade, and I haven’t put it down since. Through the years of middle school, high school and now into college, I’ve been a member of the band.
Legislators must listen to youths concerns

Legislators must listen to youth’s concerns

March 28, 2023
While scrolling through my phone in the past couple of weeks. I remember encountering an effort to stop something I wasn’t even aware I could have an effect on, The Willow Project.

CADY: Don’t ask, don’t tell, girls

Grace Cady, Managing Editor of the Marquette Journal March 28, 2023
The first lesson a young girl ever learns is shame. Women’s bodies have once again become battlegrounds for politicians — subject to silence regarding menstruation in schools
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EDITORIAL: 2023 commencement speaker, an important step for Marquette

March 28, 2023
Last week it was announced that the Marquette undergraduate commencement speaker will be Academy Award-winning actress Marlee Matlin.
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PATEL: Evolution of the Oscars

March 28, 2023
The Oscars are an exciting time of the year as many eager fans tune in to see all of their favorite movies and actors come together and celebrate each other's achievements.
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LEBRON: Student loan forgiveness is necessary to make college more accessible

Clara Lebrón, Opinions Columnist March 7, 2023
The United States has changed a lot in 40 years. Globalization  has led to a new era, where people are more easily informed and able to access the information they need. It has also led to a decrease in American jobs, an increase in illnesses traveling from country to country and a need for stronger social programs in order to promote growth.
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NIEZGODA: Our bodies are not fashion trends

Laura Niezgoda, Assistant Opinions Editor March 7, 2023
One of my first experiences with diet culture was when I stood on the weight scale in my dance studio, proving to my instructor that I was “overweight."  The digitized numbers showed eighty pounds and I remember thinking to myself, “How can my instructor lift me when I am so heavy?” I was eight years old.
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EDITORIAL: Holding MUSG Executives accountable

March 7, 2023
With the newly announced Marquette University Student Government President and Executive Vice President Abbie Moravec and Tommy Treacy, it is important that we as students hold them accountable to their platform and to communicate their accomplishments with the greater Marquette community.

SACCO: Situational Awareness as a Result of Mass Shootings

Emily Sacco, Assistant General Manager of Marquette Radio March 7, 2023
If you asked my friend Kennedy what she was afraid of, she would give you the standard answers you would expect: spiders, heights and really anything that crawls.
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GUNVILLE: Prevalence of website tracking

John Gunville, Sports Reporter February 28, 2023
This story is all about cookies! But these cookies aren't quite your grandma's cookies. Unless of course, your grandma enjoys disguising oatmeal raisin cookies as chocolate chip.
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NIEZGODA: We have a will to live forever

Laura Niezgoda, Assistant Opinions Editor February 28, 2023
My boyfriend used to live in an apartment building where there was a dinky little elevator with flowers, initials and other nonsense scratched into the back of the door. Whenever we would take the elevator up to his apartment, the door served as a backdrop to us and several others who had traveled up the floors, a physical reminder of who had been there.

WOOLARD: No silver lining to abuse

Megan Woolard, Managing Editor of the Marquette Tribune February 28, 2023

In some of the most beautiful places in the world you'll often find people claiming that the "veil is thinner." Which means the place is so beautiful that it actually brings you closer to God and subsequently...

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