By Kate Patterson Congratulations to athlete of the issue Madeline Johnson! Johnson, a junior, is a member of the logger crew team, one of the less known – but certainly not less achieving – athletic teams at Puget Sound. In their fall 2023 race, the women’s varsity 8+ boat came away with third place in a competitive field that included Division 1 University of Portland. Crew will have a full spring season, with the first race happening on Mar. 9 at American Lake in Lakewood, WA. Thank you to ore-some...

 Content Warning: This article contains discussion of online sex trafficking which some readers may find upsetting.  By Sophie Goble  Technology is constantly shaping our societies in new ways, and it makes sense that it would continue to shape sex work, the oldest profession in the book. OnlyFans, a web-based subscription service primarily used for sex work, made over $1.09 billion in 2022. OnlyFans promotes itself as a site “revolutionizing creator and fan connections,” but it has been scrutinized for its lack of age verification, seldom protection of its creators, and...

By Ishaan Gollamudi     On paper, India is a secular country. The deliberate lack of a national religion was meant to reconcile India’s newfound nationhood with the fact that the only thing most of its population had in common was being subjugated by uniformed men with pasty skin and weak stomachs. That is why it was so jarring to see Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi not only breaking ground on the site of a demolished mosque – the Babri Masjid – but also inaugurating the Hindu temple constructed there. It...