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Staff editorial: Wabash needs more student-driven art

Mar 30, 2023

It was impossible to walk around campus this month without noticing the brightly colored posters put up by The Foundation, Wabash’s new art collective aimed at promoting “socially engaged” artwork. The group, […]

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Tags: Art, Artwork, Opinion, staff editorial, Wabash | Posted in Opinion


Staff editorial: Gary Lineker, journalistic impartiality and the importance of divisive opinion columns

Mar 23, 2023

Want uncontroversial reporting? Don’t call a real journalist. Take for example Gary Lineker, a British sportscaster who recently became embroiled in a feud with his employer, the BBC. Lineker, who hosts Britain’s […]

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Tags: journalism, Lineker, reporting, staff editorial | Posted in Opinion



Opinion: Potential financial crisis? Lessons from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

Eric Zhu '23 | Guest Writer

Mar 23, 2023

Last week, my investment portfolio, which consists of 27% equities in the finance sector, experienced a tumultuous ride after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the 16th largest bank based on […]

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Tags: banking, business, finance, SVB | Posted in Opinion



Opinion: The inadvertent message of an understandable criticism

Francisco Jimenez ’24 | Guest Writer

Mar 23, 2023

About two weeks ago, a comic was made with the intent of criticizing an aspect of the Sphinx Club. It’s important to preface that I understand the criticism that the cartoon was […]

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Tags: cartoon, Sphinx Club, Wabash | Posted in Opinion



Opinion: Does Dallas dump Dak?

Andrew Dever '25 | Opinion Editor

Jan 29, 2023

Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback Dak Prescott set a football record in the 2022-2023 season. Despite missing five games due to a broken thumb sustained against the Buccaneers in the season opener, the Mississippi […]

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Opinion: America’s next generation needs new civics education

Jakob Goodwin '23 | Managing Editor

Jan 28, 2023

By any reasonable measure, the United States is more politically divided than at any point in its history since the Civil War. Americans are more partisan and more susceptible to misinformation and […]

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Staff Editorial: Indiana State Legislature, stop trying to police students’ identities

The Bachelor Editorial Staff

Jan 26, 2023

The Indiana Senate is currently considering a bill that would police students’ thoughts and actions regarding their names, clothing and very identities. LGBT students, and particularly transgender students, would be targeted by […]

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Tags: Indiana, Indiana news, LGBT | Posted in Opinion


Seeking vulnerability

William Grennon | Online Editor

Sep 26, 2022

Vulnerability is a weird thing strive for. It’s something most people are hesitant to approach because of how scary it can be to put yourself out there. But I think we put […]

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A note from the rising MXI chairman

Malik Barnes '23

Aug 22, 2022

The Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies functions as many things in its beautiful niche in our community, hand carved by great men of integrity and passion. Since its origins, which date […]

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The R-Slur

Luis Rivera '25 & Dakota Baker '22 | Opinion Writers

Apr 17, 2022

The “R-word”: a slur that was originally a medical term used to describe people with intellectual impairments, is now at the forefront of harmful rhetoric used in our society today. It is […]

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Over the Next Week, You Can Vote for a Better Wabash.

Bryce McCullough | Staff Writer

Apr 17, 2022

Our team – Bryce McCullough ’23 as President, Ben Sampsell ’24 as Vice-President, Ian Rollins ’23 as Treasurer, and Sarvik Chaudhary ’25 as Secretary – is running because we want to represent […]

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Reflecting on our Public Health Response: The Forgotten Pandemic Heroes

Jim Daly '23 | Staff Writer

Apr 17, 2022

It is not easy to grasp the fact that it has now been two years since the COVID-19 public health emergency became a worldwide pandemic that upended every aspect of our lives […]

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