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NEWS 9/2/25 9:12pm
Students see expanded merch and restaurant discounts

The Campus Bookstore will now offer a 30% discount to any one apparel item on the first Friday of every month, a change from the previous 10% discount on a designated “spirit item” introduced last April, according to an Instagram post by the Student Association. 

A&E 9/2/25 8:42pm
Review: Contemporary Arts Museum exhibit recolors American vision

Color, the artist and educator Josef Albers theorized, is relative. A red square flanked by yellow appears orange; surrounded by blue, it looks purple. Rather than being absolute, color behaves in constant flux. In “Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe,” the titular multimedia artist extends this principle to racial categorization, suggesting that race, too, operates through relational mechanisms.


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