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Letter from the Editors: Our Commitment to Defending Student Journalism

In recent years, student journalism has been under heavy fire, experiencing censorship and defunding on multiple levels. Purdue University severed ties with their long-standing student-run newspaper, The Exponent, back in June, and despite avid student support, Indiana University’s longstanding paper, The Indiana Daily Student (IDS), was defunded and their advisor was fired for allegedly resisting the administration’s censorship.




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FIFA World Cup 2026 group stage predictions

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The FIFA World Cup, a competition that comes once every four years, is one of football’s biggest stages, with the previous tournament pulling over five billion viewers throughout various platforms. This year’s World Cup will run from June 11 to July 19 across three countries: The United States, Mexico and Canada. The tournament highlights the top 48 nations in international football, different from previous years where the tournament included 32 participants. These countries are chosen before in an intercontinental qualifying tournament, and compete for the trophy and a $50 million prize money.


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Pride Month spotlights LGBTQIA+ artists shaping music

Culture

June is Pride Month, a time to celebrate LGBTQIA+ culture, honor the history of the movement and support LGBTQIA+ people and organizations. The monthlong observance honors the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan, widely considered a turning point in the LGBTQIA+ rights movement in the United States. The first Pride march in New York City was held June 28, 1970, on the first anniversary of Stonewall. 


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Troi Wharton had to learn how to walk again. Ten years later, she walked the Kelley graduation stage.

Campus

Troi Wharton remembers the first time people noticed she could not walk straight. It was 2016, and Pokémon Go had taken over the summer. Wharton, then 20, was playing the game around Indianapolis with friends and family. At the canal. At the zoo. Anywhere her phone told her another Pokémon might appear. The game required players to physically move through the real world. For Wharton, that meant walking more than usual. For the people around her, it meant seeing what she had not yet accepted.


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