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Covid-19 Pandemic Decimates The Child Care Industry

January 28, 2021 by Grace Symes

Children drawing

Early last summer, the directors of The Katmint Learning Initiative had a series of heart-wrenching conversations with their staff. Given their dire financial situation, brought on by the pandemic, six of the Brooklyn center’s ten teachers would have to be laid off. They had already tried everything to keep their teachers employed. They applied for […]

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Will centerbacks become more like the quarterbacks of football? Midfielders playing as centerbacks is an arising phenomenon in soccer.

January 28, 2021 by Haan Choi

Frenkie de Jong and Paddy McNair

During the first half of UEFA Champions League group stage away match against Juventus, FC Barcelona’s centerback Ronald Araújo suffered an injury, and was substituted at half time. Head coach Ronald Koeman turned to Barca’s main midfielder Frenkie de Jong as a replacement for the Uruguayan. This came across as a bit of a surprise, and […]

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The Best Efforts to Adapt Still Leave Festivals and Filmmakers in Limbo

January 4, 2021 by Aadil Cheema

A movie poster for "Bleed With Me" -- a woman's face superimposed over a forest -- above the logo for Nightstream Festival

Amelia Moses was excited to have her first movie, “Bleed With Me,” premiere at Fantasia Film Festival, a Montreal-based genre festival, in July. Moses and the crew, who live in Montreal, were going to reunite with the Toronto-based cast for a special celebration of their work. It took two years for the 27-year-old and her […]

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Running on fumes

January 4, 2021 by Mikaela Gegelys

What would you give up to be the best at your sport? Sleep, money, a social life? For many runners, the answer to that question is food. There is a common myth that the leanness of a runner’s body equates to the ability to run faster, which has promoted eating disorders within the running community. […]

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Yoga and Mindfulness: Why combining them is crucial to improving mental health in stressful times

December 15, 2020 by Emma Steiner

yoga

Alexandra Mathisen’s yoga practice looks a little different lately. After she finishes helping her daughter with homework, preparing a healthy dinner and writing new posts for her wellness blog, “A Rainbow a Day,” Mathisen teaches outdoor, socially-distanced yoga to the local population of Clark, Colorado. She unfolds her mat, spritzes lavender essential oil on her […]

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Puerto Rico struggles with tourism in the midst of a pandemic

December 12, 2020 by Shivani Chauhan

Imagine a room with 100 Covid-free people. Now imagine one idiot with Covid going into that room, infecting everyone else. In this  case, the room is Puerto Rico, and the idiot–Americans.   Puerto Rico has been forced to balance the spread of the coronavirus amongst their densely populated island, while also trying to maintain their economy […]

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NYU freshmen live in ghost town

December 9, 2020 by Emma Elizabeth Shores

Every fall, over 26,000 undergraduate students migrate to New York City from all across the globe all to attend New York University and reap the opportunities that come from living in New York. But Covid-19 hit New York harder than any other U.S. city, yet some freshmen happily decided to move to New York and […]

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A Classroom Without Walls

December 6, 2020 by Krill Bykanov

Nestled in the sequestered hills of Wilton, New Hampshire, The High Mowing Boarding School is a place founded on community, diversity, love, and individualism. Based on the principles of Waldorf education by the german philosopher Rudolf Steiner, the school offers a plethora of courses that are tightly knit with traditions upheld since the schools founding […]

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COVID-19 Worsens Digital Inequities along the Southern Border

November 24, 2020 by Salma Darinka Lozano

Laredo, Tx- After dormitories closed across the country, a returning college student was forced to complete an online semester using his cellular hotspot, but tightening COVID-19 restrictions and a lack of access to a stable internet connection made life difficult.  Gilberto de Leon, 20,  returned home in February to find his parents had ended their […]

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Gophers go away with men’s tennis, gymnastics, and track and field teams

November 19, 2020 by Mikaela Gegelys

University Sports Alcohol

Almost every student across the United States has encountered changes with the 2020 school year; however, many University of Minnesota athletes have had their worlds turned upside down following the elimination of three athletic programs. On Thursday, Sept. 10, the University of Minnesota formally announced they will be discontinuing their men’s gymnastics, tennis and track […]

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