Graduation wasn’t just about the walk

By Briannon Wilfong/El Inde Walking on a college graduation stage wasn’t just important to me. It meant everything. It was more deeply rooted than just having to walk across a stage, dressed in your sweltering hot cap and gown with all your stoles and chords swinging from your shoulders while your family claps for you…

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Learning patience

By Savannah Hughes/El Inde I sat low in my squeaky metal chair and rested my elbow on the wooden ledge as I patiently waited for the clock to strike noon. Once the bell rang, I sprang to my feet and rushed out the door into the crowd of students in the hallway. My senior spring…

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A new normal

By Jessica Henderson/El Inde As I was packing for my spring break trip to Hawaii, paranoia and worry was in the air. I got a call from my friend Brooke saying she wasn’t sure if we should go. My response was like most college students’ at the time: “It’s not that big of a deal,”…

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The brave lives of transgender students

By Javaughn Gray/El Inde Nikkie De Jager is a beauty influencer from the Netherlands who has been sharing her makeup skills online since 2008. De Jager does makeup tutorials on her YouTube channel and has a total of 13.3 million subscribers. This past January, De Jager’s subscribers found out she was transgender, as someone in…

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Against the wall podcast: Deterrent

By Meredith O’Neil, Claude Akins, Rocky Baier, Reed Battles, Makenzie Carolan, Sascha Fruehauf, Audry Herran, Aimee Rodríguez, and David Thalenberg/El Inde Last week a federal judge dropped the last remaining charges against border rights activist Scott Warren. This ended the final case against Warren, who last fall fought against two felony charges. The No More…

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