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Spotify Users: Your Playlists are Performative

January 23, 2024 by

Phoebe Mitchem thinks Spotify has just become another social media.
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Where’d All the Time Go?

January 18, 2024 by

Haley Joseph explores why we feel like time is going faster and faster.
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U-Mail: Buzzing for a life outside of class

November 30, 2023 by

Maya Salem reflects on reading and wanting to live and learn.
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“I want to tell you a Sacramento story”

November 16, 2023 by

Riley Burke reflects on growing up in Sacramento and her layered connection with Joan Didion.
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Nostalgia: Who are we and where do we go?

November 9, 2023 by

Michelle Shteynberg reflects on nostalgia and how it makes us who we are.
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The Throne Zone: We tried every bathroom so you don’t have to — top 10 edition

November 2, 2023 by and

Sam Healey and Seamus O’Meara are petitioning Chancellor Henry T. Yang so they can teach an “Intro to Bathroom Studies” course at UCSB.
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The costly convenience of food delivery, and a vision for shopping local

October 31, 2023 by

Arjun Vinod reflects on sustainable grocery shopping and the environmental perils of food delivery.
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Stories from Storke: Encounter with a ghost

October 26, 2023 by and

José Suarez and Maya Salem share some run-ins with the supernatural.
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Letter to the editor: Hispanic Heritage Month Write-in

October 20, 2023 by and

José Suarez and Luis Ledezma reflect on what being Hispanic means to them.
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AITO: Tube Girl

October 19, 2023 by and

Is this the right train?
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AITO: The Quarter System

October 5, 2023 by and

The age-old question.
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U-Mail: Good Bones

October 5, 2023 by

Kayura Narayanan looks fondly back on (and forward to) their close relationships.
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Powerhouses versus props: the “it” factor in female representation

August 29, 2023 by

Haley Joseph critiques common caricatures of women in the media, and wonders what makes a character, as the kids say, an "It Girl".
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Stories from Storke: What I wish I knew my freshman year

August 29, 2023 by , and

Haley Joseph, Alice Zhang and Bhavya Uniyal reflect on what they learned during their first year at UCSB.
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The restoration of history: how art transforms the narrative

July 21, 2023 by

Haley Joseph takes inspiration from curator Diana Nawi’s guest lecture and reflects on how art informs the present.
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