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The ship letters outside of Old Main spring 2025
The ship letters outside of Old Main spring 2025

Last Updated 9 hours ago

The Slate Speaks: Time to Right the Ship

 Shippensburg University’s Class of 2025 graduates in just 11 days — an accomplishment to be proud of for sure — what about everyone else? They will be returning in the fall to a campus that continues to be plagued by issues of convenience, or worse. 


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Remember Britain this summer

 The common narrative of American independence describes a swift separation of the colonies from a nebulous entity called “the British,” positioning American identity as being in opposition to British identity. 


2/4/2025, 1:06pm

Tik Tok’s Absence & Borrowed Time

 For the day it was banned, Tik Tok felt like a phantom limb. Even though the app was no longer available to use to watch videos, it was difficult to not click on it out of habit. 


2/4/2025, 12:56pm

The Power of Poetry

 Writing is meant to release tension, and everybody has the skill to do so. Writing is not ever inherently good or bad; it is personal.