“You can’t care about football without caring about the lives and futures of the football players,” writes Loos.
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A Letter to My Freshman Self
“As a white male, being fully cognizant of your privilege is something you will never be able to attain. You should always be striving for it, though, conscious of the fact that you will always come up short. And that’s just the truth.”
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Awareness and the College Experience
“Too often, as college students, we become fixated on ‘doing.’ We deceive ourselves into believing that our self-worth is achieved through constant activity and movement, forgetting that beneath all the ‘doing,’ we are beings.”
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Coming Full Circle on Campus
“I’m back to living on main again, but now I have found myself going back to these old spots in a way that I never did sophomore year.”
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Learning From Our Heroes
“Yet, whenever I remember these characters, I remember the way they all saw each other’s essence, each other’s worth. I remember their qualities and virtues.”
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Exploring My Love for Maps
“Little things growing up can have a seemingly disproportionate impact on one’s academic career later in life.”
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Finding Our Individual Charisma
“For some, charisma may simply mean listening to and being fully present for another human being. For others, it means dancing in the spotlight like a Broadway performer.”
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Changing the Capstone Program
“They seem, to me, the exact sort of class that ought to be taken pass/fail, so that the obsequiousness encouraged by the obsession with grades can be put aside for once, giving students the chance to speak without the normal consequences of expressing unformed thoughts.”
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Reflecting on “Silence is Still Violence”
“Now, we’re ready for action, and that involves conversations with decision makers in a spirit of accountability.”
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The Power of Home
“Though I had never entertained such doubts before, I couldn’t help but notice that there were stark differences between my ‘home away from home’ and the place that I was raised.”
