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Video game characters should be more than stereotype reinforcements

One of my favorite hobbies is to play video games. I play games of all genres — from role-playing games to the competitive first-person shooter games — it’s just so much fun for me. Over the break, my cousin let me borrow a game titled Bayonetta. It was a game I had only heard about [...]

Some thoughts on my close brush with journalism: A barely abridged version

When I first entered college back in 2007, I was supposedly a Creative Writing major.  Of course, this was at Antioch College in Ohio, a magical place where everyone created their own major, so I was unsure from the beginning how exactly my degree would read when everything was said and done.  I was surprised [...]

Alumna shares her experience of post-Mills anxiety

Mills alumna Jasmine Abele shares her experiences following graduation.

Erin Connoly provides a saucy perspective on conservative politics over the summer

It was another tense and swampy summer day in Washington when a group of Senators sat down to lunch. The United States was hours away from debt defaulting, which would result in an economic fall similar to Wile E. Coyote stepping off a cliff — the global financial markets as the ACME anvil trailing behind. [...]

Kelly Sheahen Gerner recalls reporting 9/11

I remember watching the television in the basement of Ethel Moore as the plane flew into the second tower and I kept thinking I should have brought my reporter’s notebook downstairs with me. The night before was a Weekly late-night; I had stayed up til after midnight laying out our news section and already I [...]

From the Desk of the Editor-in-Chief . . .

Dear Mills Community, Growing up, I, like many children, sifted through nearly a dozen ideas as to who I wanted to be “when I grew up.” From dreaming of being an opera singer to wanting to be an ambassador for some faraway country, I could never settle on one passion to live for — until [...]

Graduation is fun for everyone — well, mostly just my mother

Nicole Vermeer’s mom is super excited about her graduation while Nicole is a frenzied, frustrated mess knowing that her Mills experience will soon all be over.

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