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Tuesday, March 10, 2026
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Your backpack happened to be unzipped and that is OK

By Editorial Board · Friday, March 6, 2026

Waving back at someone who definitely was not waving at you. Stumbling over your coffee order even though you practiced it in your head a million times before getting to the front of line. And the dreaded unzipped backpack, open for all to see on the whole walk from your dorm to Reade. 

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Climate action is an act of worship

Friday, March 6, 2026

In an increasingly polarized political landscape, one issue continues to draw a dividing line between red and blue: climate change.

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The early bird gets the worm

By Karlee Johnson · Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025

You see a friend approaching you on the sidewalk. “Hey! How are you?” he or she asks. Don’t say it. Don’t say it. Don’t say it. “I’m tired,” you respond with a weak smile. 

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Where has our academic honesty gone?

By Spencer Smith · Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2025

Our world is in an academic crisis, where the cultural norms have completely switched. With the increased use of AI, it is becoming a common practice for everyone to cheat and feel little to no remorse. Do your work as if Jesus or your parents were watching you do it.

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Our View: The Echo responds to IDS printing ban

By Editorial Board · Friday, Nov. 21, 2025

In recent weeks, the Indiana Daily Student newspaper of Indiana University has been the subject of a scandal after university administrators decided to cut the funding needed to print and distribute the papers. However, IU decided to reinstate the printing budget late last month.

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'If it's not yours, it's somebody else's'

By Jane' Aubry Page · Friday, Sept. 19, 2025

Some people might call this “bike borrowing,” but that’s not what everyone calls it. “You're taking something that doesn't belong to you, and putting it somewhere else,” Mike Guebert, professor of geology and environmental science, said. “If you're not returning it to that person — I call it stealing.”

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Our View: Sell it all

By Editorial Board · Friday, Sept. 19, 2025

A man finds treasure hidden in a field. When he finds it, he hides it again. He leaves the field rejoicing about what he’s just found. He goes and sells all he has, for the value of the treasure has deemed everything else trivial in comparison. When he has enough money, he goes and buys the field containing the treasure. 

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Conveniencing ourselves to death

Friday, Sept. 19, 2025

Last spring, a graduating senior reflected with me on his learning experiences at Taylor. I asked what course had demanded the most of him. “Western Political Thought,” he answered immediately, recalling all the rigors involved in a class with Dr. Brad Seeman.

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Thank you class of 2025

By Michael Lindsay · Wednesday, May 21, 2025

​​As the weather warms and another academic year draws to a close, my heart is filled with gratitude for the remarkable ways the Lord is at work in and through Taylor. This spring's Commencement marks the end of my fourth year as president and with it, a meaningful milestone. The graduating class of 2025 is special to our family, for we have journeyed together during the Lindsays’ first four years at Taylor. It has been such a joy to walk this road together.

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Christian discernment in media

By Kenna Hartian · Wednesday, May 21, 2025

If I didn’t have some semblance of self-control, I’d eat a bar of chocolate a day. Sometimes I still do. When I was in eighth or ninth grade, my literature teacher assigned “The Bitter Side of Sweet” as our reading.

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Wisdom for seniors

By Richard Smith · Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Why should graduating seniors care about the Old Testament? Any senior graduating from Taylor without an answer to this question ought to ask themselves what has gone wrong to leave them with this yawning lacuna of mind and soul. That might strike you as a nervy thing for me to say. But time is short, you are headed out the door and I am limited to 700 words. For the sake of clarity, allow me to dispense with niceties.

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If we’re honest

By Contessa Hussong · Wednesday, May 21, 2025

I am the most honest liar you could ever meet.For a long time, I tried not to think of it that way — after all, we all tend to avoid the truth from time to time. The little lies about how we are really doing, what we really think. The fibs about what we want and how we honestly feel.

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Our View: Stop beef with meat

By The Echo Editorial Board · Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Ellie Schaufelberger, a freshman at Taylor University, lifts weights and loves beef and steak. Her friends call her “quarter pounder.” She’s not falling in line with the vegans.

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Fear God, not the climate

By Kenna Hartian · Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Browse the climate section of the UN’s website, and you’ll notice a couple of things. One, climate change is supposed to be catastrophic. Two, it’s entirely humanity’s fault.

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Student Development faculty net big hugs

By Matthew Renfrow · Wednesday, May 14, 2025

I confess that I’ve felt just a bit of jealousy over the big hugs that my Student Development Faculty colleagues enjoy in one of my most favorite Taylor traditions – the graduation faculty tunnel. I am a (HUGE) “hugger” and while I do get some solid hugs in the tunnel, the unhealthy tendency to compare myself to others creeps in at times. 

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Letter to the editor: Airband over all

By Jonathan Stiver · Thursday, May 1, 2025

I’ve been hearing a lot of criticisms of Airband from my classmates and professors recently. They’ve said that students put too much time into it and they allow it to drive a wedge into friendships. I just wanted to write to The Echo to share my opinion on all of this.