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2017 Young Trustee endorsement policy

The Chronicle will be publishing endorsement letters for the 2017 Young Trustee elections from Tuesday, Feb. 7 to Monday, Feb. 13. No endorsements will be published Tuesday, Feb. 14 or Wednesday, Feb. 15, the days of the election. The final deadline for endorsements will be 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12.


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Purple America

My hope is that with no thought of a riposte, we can finally hear each other, and realize that America, when you listen carefully, sounds purple.


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Where's the Wi-Fi?

When I look out my door, I can see three far more expensive routers and still not get Wi-Fi. It would comically absurd if it were funny, but it’s not—it’s just absurd.


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​Lessons from Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel was an Aesop for the 20th-century, writing more than 60 children’s books that have sold hundreds of millions of copies and made their way into the nighttime readings of countless children around the world.


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The struggles of a fixable problem: food waste

Last spring, I spent my semester at USC through Duke in LA. While there, I became familiar with the clear and present homelessness problem in which, for example, an entire neighborhood has turned into blocks and blocks of homeless tenters stacked almost on top of each other.


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President Obama’s legacy

Moments after Donald Trump was sworn in as President on Jan. 20, President Barack Obama boarded Air Force One for the final time, leaving Andrews Air Force base for Palm Springs, California.