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Meg Richards

Meg Richards, Opinion Editor

Meg Richards is a first-year student from Richmond, Virginia. She has a double major in journalism and political communications. She mainly writes for the Opinion section, though she dabbles in News and Living Arts.

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Illustration by Rachel Choi

The grind don’t stop…until the body is destroyed 

By Meg Richards and Ty Gavin
April 26, 2023

Meg I have been dancing since I was two years old. Ballet, tap, jazz, modern, contemporary—pretty much all of it. My feet have only stopped moving for a two-year tae-kwon-do hiatus, ever since which...

Highest achieving students recognized at 12th annual ERA Awards

Highest achieving students recognized at 12th annual ERA Awards

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
April 26, 2023

The Emerson Recognition Achievement Awards, or ERA Awards, took place in the Robert J. Orchard Theater last Friday, where students across all majors were recognized for various extracurricular achievements...

‘They’re logical things, but theyre not human beings’: What is ChatGPT, and what should we be concerned about?

‘They’re logical things, but they’re not human beings’: What is ChatGPT, and what should we be concerned about?

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
April 26, 2023

ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence program that has the capability to write basically anything can write your essays for you. Emerson community members, along with those at other colleges, are adjusting...

Illustration by Ryan Yau

Let’s put it bluntly: all drugs should be legal

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
April 19, 2023

It’s 4/20, a day for the predominately white students of Emerson College to ditch class and smoke in the Boston Common, without a care in the world and definitely without repercussions. The irony behind...

Illustration by Kellyn Taylor.

Donald Trump was just indicted. Now what?

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
April 5, 2023

Former Pres. Donald Trump has been indicted by a New York grand jury for using campaign funds to pay off adult film star Stormy Daniels and two other women to stay quiet about their extramarital affair....

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Emerson’s historic “Jelly’s Last Jam” comes alive after four-year roadblock

By Meg Richards and Maddie Barron
April 5, 2023

Though the cast of “Jelly’s Last Jam” wasn’t mic'd, their powerful voices resonated throughout the Semel, echoing Emerson’s first all-Black musical’s central mission: the elevation of unsung...

Illustration by Rachel Choi

I’m ready to talk about my feelings

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
April 5, 2023

Throughout my life, I’ve let some questionable shit happen solely because I was afraid that I was feeling my feelings too intensely, even though all the signs were there. I’m typically characterized...

Protester holding signs at the D.C. rally.

‘Does the promise of this country include children being gunned down?’: Gun violence protesters march in D.C.

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
March 29, 2023

Activists against gun violence gathered on the National Mall, just yards in front of Capitol Hill on Friday, a day after the parents of a Parkland shooting victim were taken out of a Joint Subcommittee...

Illustration by Rachel Choi

I put the ‘virgin’ in Virginian: my first time was more than a social construct

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
March 22, 2023

The first thing I said to the man I forever trusted with my “V-Card” was, “I think I just lost my virginity.” And even though he already knew that, I still felt the need to say it out loud. Part...

Megan Mitchell as a Good Morning Emerson host in 2013

Emerson Alum, journalist, and viral TikToker: Megan Mitchell does it all

By Emma Bowen and Meg Richards
March 9, 2023

Emerson alum Megan Mitchell has built a wildly successful journalism career off of her TikTok success, bridging the gap between old and new media. She uses her reach to advocate for LGBTQ+ people in the...

Illustration by Kellyn Taylor

Outer Banks depicts the devastating reality of the troubled teen industry

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
March 8, 2023

The third season of the hit Netflix original series “Outer Banks,” featuring the usual hunt for lost treasure and steamy romance scenes, highlights a harsh reality for thousands of teenagers who struggle...

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“Pamela, A Love Story”: In with the documentary, out with the biopic

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
February 15, 2023

Pamela Anderson, a media personality who took the ‘90s by storm, is finally telling her own story. Last year, Hulu released a biopic series called “Pam and Tommy,” recounting the tumultuous relationship...

Bless your heart: a love letter to the true South

Bless your heart: a love letter to the true South

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
February 1, 2023

When I came to Boston this past September, I learned something about how relative the idea of “the South” vs. “the North” is. In Virginia, where I grew up, my friends and I rarely regard ourselves...

The madness over McCarthy could help the Democrats in 2024

The madness over McCarthy could help the Democrats in 2024

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
January 25, 2023

After a week of humiliating deliberations, phone calls to “DT”, and a near-miss physical altercation on the House floor, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has been elected Speaker of the House—and on the...

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Republican candidates appear soft on abortion in a Post-Roe election season. Don’t trust them.

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
November 9, 2022

The morning Roe V. Wade was overturned, a thick silence hung in the air. Everything felt surprisingly small at the moment, but bigger than the human brain could feasibly comprehend. It was both overwhelming...

Illustration by Meg Richards

America’s biggest haunted house: the echo chamber

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
October 26, 2022

Alt-right fringe conservatives are repackaging the same witch-hunt rhetoric that got the likes of Disney’s Sanderson Sisters hanged 400 years ago. The newest right-wing moral panic surrounds the recently...

Illustration by Madison Barron

Ned Fulmer, Rex Orange County, and separating the violence from the artist

By Meg Richards, Opinion Editor
October 13, 2022

“There’s sexual harassment over here and you shouldn’t conflate it with rape,” said Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement. “Which is true; those are two very different things. But they’re...

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A Starr is born: how the media made a name for Monica Lewinsky

By Meg Richards , Opinion Editor
September 21, 2022

He wrote her like the main character in a fan fiction—something to be consumed but not respected.  “She told him that she had a crush on him. He laughed, then asked if she would like to see his...

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