“The author talks about [topic]” is filler. Your professors want your college-level ideas.

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T-Shirts for student journalists who recently leveled up to “staff writer”(with bear signed by 20 years of editors)

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I just thought of a time before you were born when I should have been kind, but I can’t remember whether I was.

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Student journalists assemble! The Setonian club fair table is looking spiffy.

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