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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Songs to fall in love with this Valentine’s Day | Liv Listens

By Olivia Stapleton February 13, 2025
Valentine’s Day can be a fun holiday no matter your relationship status, and what better way to celebrate than by listening to some great love songs? I’ve picked out a few for whatever relationship stage or Valentine’s Day mood you might be in because I believe there’s a perfect love song for everyone. 
Jodi Tang | Graphic Artist

Decentering romantic relationships

By Chloe Saint Mard February 10, 2025
Somewhere along the line, we were sold the idea that romantic love is the ultimate prize and that being single is some kind of failure. We’ve been conditioned to think that if you're not in a relationship, you're somehow incomplete. But, here’s the truth — romantic love is just one kind of love. It’s not the centerpiece of life unless you make it that way. Honestly, that’s a pretty fragile foundation to build your happiness on.
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Ask Abby (or Analise): A dating dilemma — BF or BFF?

By Analise Bruno November 27, 2023
Dear Abby: Please help! I don’t know what to do, my friends are telling me that I don’t spend enough time with them, and that I am prioritizing my boyfriend over them –– but I think I balance the relationships well. Am I in the wrong for spending too much time with my boyfriend? How do I save my friendships?
‘Priscilla’ film review: The other side of Presley

‘Priscilla’ film review: The other side of Presley

By Siena Gordillo October 19, 2023
Adapted from Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me,” Coppola brings a blush-pink Americana wonderland to the screen. The natural move is to compare this biopic to Baz Lurhmann’s “Elvis” film, released summer 2022. But “Priscilla” stands boldly, and quite divinely, on its own. 
Lila Baltaxe | Senior Graphic Artist

Romance is not the only form of love

By Lea Rivel September 18, 2023
It seems as though romantic love is presented as being the only way we can find fulfillment — but getting to know who you truly are outside of the context of how you appear to others is essential to self development and, ultimately, self love.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Senior Graphic Artist

A case for Valentine’s Day | On The Record

By Addison Schmidt February 10, 2023
We have been deluded into believing that romance lies solely along linear planes, a one-dimensional existence between characters we are nothing like, and worlds we will never live in— but love does not have to be exactly like it is in the movies. And that’s a good thing. 
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