Who Gets to Speak Easy When Free Speech is the New Risky Drink?
From free presses to whispered dissent, how does the modern day look at the world's speech speakeasies and who pays the price to speak?
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Juhi Sarvaiya
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Arts & Culture
Wait…Can I Even Laugh at That?
Stand-up comedy has made dark humor mainstream, but it has also made it more controversial than ever. But what makes a dark joke so funny…an…
Arts & Culture
Why The Most "Real" Scenes in Film Are the Most Staged
John Wick, Bridgerton, Deadpool, Atomic Blonde…what do they have in common? Meticulous choreography behind moments that look effortless.
Campus Life
Unsettling the Settler Conversation
The word “solidarity” looks good on posters, Instagram stories, and in land acknowledgments. It sounds like progress, but solidarity has a w…
Campus Life
Old Spice, a Cowboy Hat, and “You Are My Sunshine”: What a Memory Café Looks Like
What makes you, “you”? It is not just your face or your personality; it is your memories. The people you love, the songs that get stuck in y…
Campus Life
The Final Stretch: The Strategy Season Before Graduation
The final semester before graduation feels like a group project with your future self. Your calendar turns into a weird mix of final require…
Campus Life
Are You Using the Library or Just Sitting In It?
You know that generic image of a library that you carry around in your head? Warm lighting, endless wooden shelves, and one strict librarian…
Campus Life
Professors: The Original University Influencers
We all know what it is like to be a student at university. We share stories about exam seasons, last-minute projects, part-time jobs, and th…
Campus Life
Find the Boyfriend: The Art of the Soft Launch
Forget pickleball. Forget intramurals. Who would have thought that our generation’s real competitive sport would be spotting the soft launch…
Campus Life
The Flirtation Equation
The most convincing love story lies not in grand gestures and tropes, but in conversations. The way two characters talk to each other, the w…
Campus Life
Running Up That Hill and Falling Into a Government Conspiracy
Before Hawkins, before the Demogorgon, before a girl named Eleven opened a portal with her mind, before all of it, there was Montauk — a rea…
Campus Life
Spaces & Places: The Geography of Student Life
Only after moving from one place to another, from home to home, city to city, and country to country, do we realize the impact that spaces a…
Campus Life
Hold the Bacon Please: The Great Vegetarian Adjustment
"Sitting in Cactus Club Café, I take another sip of water while scanning the menu. Across the table, my friends are deep in discussion of wh…
Campus Life
Shelf Improvement: Inside the ECU’s Book Exchange
On Thursday, October 9, in between classes and a hectic schedule, I was walking through the library and stopped short at the Sawchuk Theatre…
Campus Life
The Class Rule: Lessons from a No-Phones Classroom
When I first walked into this class, I thought the rule sounded almost absurd: no phones, no laptops, no devices – at all. For a university …
Campus Life
The Paper that Speaks: The Legacy of The Phoenix News
Long before the age of online news feeds and social media, campus newspapers provided the first place where students saw their own stories i…