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"The Midnight Library," Owl Criticism, and Me
“The Midnight Library,” Owl Criticism, and Me
Tate Kraetzer, Volunteer • April 1, 2025

Content Warning: Suicide, Suicidal Ideation, Self Harm   At the risk of sounding conceited, let’s harken back to two specific quotes from my previous blog posts.  First,...

Art Feature: “Aspens – 2” & “Apple Barrel ® Colors – Red Flag”
Aspen McCallum and Flora Snowden March 31, 2025

  Apple Barrel ® Colors - Red Flag Flora Snowden   I'm on new medication. They told me it will thin my skin   and make wounds heal slowly. I...

Jim Obergefell waves to the crowd at San Francisco Pride 2015 while holding a rainbow pride flag. Image retrieved from Flickr under Creative Commons licensing.
Reflections on marriage equality: Obergefell’s visit to OSU
Sam Szekely, Volunteer • March 11, 2025

*The following is an edited excerpt of a journal entry written on March 6   Today, I had the opportunity to meet Jim Obergefell and hear him talk on a panel about being...

The Bartimaeus Sequence: I was 20 and It Made Me Cry
The Bartimaeus Sequence: I was 20 and It Made Me Cry
Maria Tejeda Solorzano, Volunteer • March 4, 2025

The Bartimaeus Sequence actually started as a trilogy. Written by Jonathan Stroud, the original trilogy was published from 2003 to 2005, with the books in the following order:...

A Defense of Authorship in the Age of AI
A Defense of Authorship in the Age of AI
Austin Thornton, Volunteer • February 25, 2025

Since the introduction of generative artificial intelligence models, newly-released books can be and have been plagiarized with AI-generated copies within a day of their release....

Creating in Perilous Times: What Would You Carry?
Creating in Perilous Times: What Would You Carry?
Brynne Boehlecke, Editor-in-Chief • February 18, 2025

Last year, I wrote a blog post covering my experience in the “Stone Award Book Club,” a 1-credit course focused on unpacking Robin Wall Kimmerer’s “Braiding Sweetgrass”...

A Very Abbreviated History of Raggedy Ann and Andy
A Very Abbreviated History of Raggedy Ann and Andy
Elizabeth Pritchett, Volunteer • February 11, 2025

My first exposure to Raggedy Ann was the well-known story of Annabelle, a haunted Raggedy Ann doll kept in a locked case in the (now defunct) Warrens' Occult Museum (About...

What’s the Table Function in the Notes App Even For?: A Review of All the Books I Read in 2024
What’s the Table Function in the Notes App Even For?: A Review of All the Books I Read in 2024
Tate Kraetzer, Volunteer • February 4, 2025

If you have an iPhone and spend an inordinate amount of time on your Notes app like I do, you might have noticed an odd little feature at your disposal: You can make a table.  Now,...

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