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Anonymous, Contributing Writer October 1, 2025

I have dye in my hair as I write this. “Dancing in the Dark” by Bruce Springsteen is playing out of my phone’s speakers because I left my JBL at a friend’s house. I’m frustrated and scared about...

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Heartbeat

Anonymous, Contributing Writer September 24, 2025

How do you know they’re the one? What drives the urge to be forward and strike up a conversation? Is that even what you do, or are people just bold enough to be direct? I feel as if I watched others...

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Heartbeat

Anonymous, Contributing Writer April 30, 2025

I am who I am because of everything I love, and there’s no doubt in my mind about that. Love has saved me, and will only continue to do so. However, love is not the straightforward thing that the media...

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Heartbeat

Kathryn Looney, Opinions Editor March 26, 2025

There is a quote by Toni Morrison that I often think about: “Good is just more interesting, more complex, more demanding. Evil is silly, it may be horrible, but at the same time it’s not a compelling...

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Heartbeat

Katherine Stoneman, Sports Writer March 19, 2025

After encountering almost every man I have ever talked to this past weekend, a question started circling in my head: do liberal arts men not feel enough shame?  Now, I know that this might not be the...

Heartbeat

Heartbeat

Anonymous March 13, 2025

Sappho says love is bittersweet, but it isn't, not really. She says love is γλυκύπικρος- literally, sweetbitter. And she’s right. The sweetness comes first. The sweetness is watching your...

L is for the way you look at me…

L is for the way you look at me…

Anonymous, Contributing Writer March 5, 2025

I love love! I love my friends, my partner, myself, my family, and those lavender lattes from the Cage. But love is also super complicated and you can love people and things in different ways. There is...

Match-o-matics, in review

Match-o-matics, in review

Marea Nielsen, Contributing Writer February 26, 2025

This is my second year on the Hill, which means I have spent two Valentine's Days watching Oles receive flowers and gifts from their significant others. For nearly 20 years, I have wondered: When is it...

How “Brat” defined my relationship

How “Brat” defined my relationship

Anonymous December 4, 2024

There is a possibility that a population of Oles will know who this is. So hey to those Oles. I wish to speak on music’s role in romantic relationships or getting over them or something. To begin, I...

Cats or men? Which one would you choose?

Cats or men? Which one would you choose?

Anonymous, Contributing Writer November 20, 2024

So, here’s the thing I’ve recently realized: I have a type. Which, honestly, is a weird thing to admit because I never thought I had one. I mean, people usually have types, right? Some like their partners...

Let’s leave the term “situationship” in 2024

Let’s leave the term “situationship” in 2024

Anonymous November 13, 2024

I HATE THE TERM SITUATIONSHIP! As a victim of many unlabeled, emotionally taxing relationships, I consider myself incredibly qualified to speak on the term "situationship", and its horrifying effects on...

Times change and so will your friends

Times change and so will your friends

Jacob Rozell, Sports Editor November 6, 2024

Last year, around this time, I wrote a Heartbeat about loving your friends. I was in my first year in love with the world (though anyone who knows me would say that I’m still in love with the world)....

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