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The return of Yik Yak

Claire Miller | Wednesday, September 15, 2021

It’s 6:30 p.m. on a Monday night in North Dining Hall and my friends are laughing at their phones. It might as well as been a random night in 2013 given the fact that my friends were using Yik Yak, an app I hadn’t heard of since it was downloaded on my iPod Touch nearly

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On anonymity and identification

Show Some Skin | Thursday, August 13, 2020

Those of you who know me know that I have been closely involved with Notre Dame’s Show Some Skin since my freshman year. It is, in my humble opinion, one of the most welcoming, genuine and radically empathetic initiatives on campus. This school year, I’m so blessed to say I will be serving as Executive Director for our

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Practice taking responsibility for your speech

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, January 22, 2015

I have said things I regretted more times than I would like to remember. I have also refrained from saying what I have thought at times because I feared embarrassment or being misunderstood, or I was just unwilling to accept responsibility for my words. Being responsible for what I say is burdensome. The Twitter account