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Every week in my creative writing class, the most common critique of people’s writing has been that it is too cliche . When I wrote my first short story assignment, I was careful to not include any cliches in any aspect of the story, whether in regard to the phrasing, the plot or the characters.
At Caitlyn Jenner’s speech last Wednesday evening, once the question and answer began, I didn’t have to wait long for the question I’d come to Irvine expecting to hear.
No one would disagree that this has been an unpredictable election cycle. But perhaps the biggest surprise is the success of two very unlikely candidates, Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump.
As many of you already know, there is ongoing campaign to convince Penn to divest its endowment from fossil fuels, or in other words, to eliminate all of the University’s investments in the coal, oil, and gas companies that pollute the atmosphere and cause climate change.