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A Gingko Boulevard
A Gingko Boulevard By Merry May Ma, Staff Writer Artwork by Merry May Ma, Staff Artist Close to Whispers Café and beside it, falling are ginkgo leaves. Covering the ground, a yellow carpet is being weaved. A girl in a yellow dress climbs the tree. As a tall breeze blows by, thousands of… -
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Vision Theme Art, Merry May Ma
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Theme Art, Shonali Palacios
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Tolerance vs. Acceptance
I remember the first time I truly felt “othered”. Entering Mrs. Murphy’s third grade class on the first day at a new school, wearing the carefully ironed outfit my mother had picked for me. When I was asked to introduce myself, I spoke clearly, proudly rolling my r’s and pronouncing my name the way it…
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Racism Knows No Boundaries
Instead of doing Zoom classes from my dorm this semester, I decided to spend time working on a small, organic farm near Yellville, Arkansas. Yellville is about five hours from my hometown of St. Louis and just past the southern Missouri border. On the evening of my first full day at the farm, it was…
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Postmodern Blues
Borders, walls, fences, whatever the term used, whatever the latest expression, boundaries are always misty affairs. Whatever lens we apply to view them, boundaries populate each corner of the globe, an only natural progression considering we humans are social creatures. Separating us from other members of the animal kingdom is our unprecedented depth of collaboration.…
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Productivity and Pandemic: Reflections from a Wash U Senior
Warm afternoons sitting on Mudd Field, picnicking on Art Hill or strolling down the Loop. Readings that didn’t really matter anymore, lazy mornings with my roommates, and final adventures exploring the parts of St. Louis that our too-busy schedules had not allowed for up to this point. This is how I had imagined the final…
