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  • Beauty & Health
    • The Reality of Health Anxiety
      The Reality of Health Anxiety
    • Rainbow Wigs as a Proxy for Freedom
      Rainbow Wigs as a Proxy for Freedom
    • The Rise of Face Card Culture
      The Rise of Face Card Culture
    • Recipes
  • Entertainment
    • A24’s “Elden Ring” Casting: Absurd or Enlightened?
      A24’s “Elden Ring” Casting: Absurd or Enlightened?
    • The Rise of Copycat Consumption
      The Rise of Copycat Consumption
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      Meet VALLEY’S Spring 2026 Entertainment Section Opener: Josh Kondé
  • Campus Culture
    • More Than a Store: Inside Smith and Front
      More Than a Store: Inside Smith and Front
    • Thank You, Come Again! — A Love Letter to Shared Spaces
      Thank You, Come Again! — A Love Letter to Shared Spaces
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      MEET VALLEY’S SPRING 2026 CAMPUS CULTURE SECTION OPENER: NOA DIGGS
    • THON
    • The Single Girls of State
    • Features
    • Events
  • Fashion
    • Vivienne Westwood: a World of Hope
      Vivienne Westwood: a World of Hope
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      Meet VALLEY’s Spring 2026 Fashion Section Opener: Ray Somawardana
    • Rocky’s Ray Bans
      Rocky’s Ray Bans
  • Self-Improvement
    • Freak the Freak Out
      Freak the Freak Out
    • The Art of Reconsumption
      The Art of Reconsumption
    • Girl Dinner? Try Guy Grub.
      Girl Dinner? Try Guy Grub.
    • College Crisis
  • This Just In
    • Who Runs the World? (Big Oil)
      Who Runs the World? (Big Oil)
    • Singer D4vd Charged with First-Degree Murder
      Singer D4vd Charged with First-Degree Murder
    • Jury Finds Ticketmaster and Live Nation Operated Illegal Monopoly
      Jury Finds Ticketmaster and Live Nation Operated Illegal Monopoly

Zara Denison

Zara is a third year English major from Maryland. In her free time she enjoys listening to music, going on runs, watching movies and learning how to cook.

Fashion

The Keep Pile

By Zara Denison

When the annual spring cleaning impulse begins to emerge, closets are usually the first spaces to bear the brunt, becoming ground zero for sorting, purging…

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Campus Culture

College Graduation Gift Guide

By Zara Denison

Graduation season is around the corner, and VALLEY’s got you covered with all of the ways you can spoil your loved ones, family and friends….

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Beauty & Health

Bad Habits, Be Gone!

By Zara Denison

We all know that person—or maybe it’s yourself—who claims not to do something that everyone knows they’re guilty of. For some, it’s bracketing vaping and…

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Self-Improvement

Driving Me Crazy

By Zara Denison

It’s easy to feel like the borough just isn’t big enough for you and all of your past lovers or failed relationship attempts. Seriously, how…

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Self-Improvement

Enjoy the butterflies

By Zara Denison

Endeavoring on a new sport, hobby or career is an extremely humbling enterprise. It requires putting yourself out there, accepting failure and allowing yourself to…

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Self-Improvement

Think Before You Speak!

By Zara Denison

Would freedom exist if there wasn’t a word for it? What about the feeling of shame, if it went by another name? The way that…

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This Just In

Penn State alumni sentenced for Piazza death

By Zara Denison

Brendan Young, 28, of Malvern, Pennsylvania, and Daniel Casey, 27, of Ronkonkoma, New York, both pleaded guilty to 14 counts of hazing and a single…

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Campus Culture

What makes you mascuzyn?

By Zara Denison

Zyn, a nicotine pouch created as an alternative to smoking, has become a symbol of masculinity and a lightning rod for culture wars in the…

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This Just In

Kai Trump’s Influence

By Zara Denison

Kai Trump, the golf-playing and grandfather-endorsing 17-year-old is making headlines for more than just her recent commitment to the University of Miami’s Division One golf…

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This Just In

Is the downfall of Peanut the downfall of Democracy?

By Zara Denison

On Friday Nov. 1, the beloved pet squirrel named Peanut was euthanized by the state of New York. Mark Longo, Peanut’s owner and content creator,…

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Beauty & Health

The Second Puberty

By Zara Denison

Going through puberty as a middle schooler or high schooler is like constantly being at war with yourself. By the time it’s over and you’re…

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Entertainment

We Live in Time, a movie for the ages

By Zara Denison

We Live in Time is intimate, mischievously funny, tender and stares you dead in the eyes as it pulls on your heartstrings. This movie hurts…

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Beauty & Health

Kiss Me Through the Phone

By Zara Denison

Phone sex can be a difficult conversation, whether you’re doing the deed or talking about it — the interplay between our sex lives and screen…

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Fashion

The Best Brands you don’t know

By Zara Denison

Worried that when you walk into the bar you’ll be wearing the same thing as everyone else? Unfortunately, you’re not alone. The world of fashion…

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Entertainment

Why does the Golden Bachelorette make me cry?

By Zara Denison

The Golden Bachelor premiered for the first time just one year ago, a spinoff of the wildly successful Bachelor franchise. Unlike the traditional version, which…

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Campus Culture

Schreyer for Women Hosts President Bendapudi and Miss America 2014, Nina Davuluri

By Zara Denison

On December 7, 2023, Schreyer for Women held an evening in conversation with special guests Miss America 2014, Nina Davuluri, and President Bendapudi.  The evening…

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Beauty & Health

Why Perfume Commercials are so Weird?

By Zara Denison

Are you ever watching a commercial that seems like its sole purpose is to weird you out or trip your brain, until at the last…

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Self-Improvement

I’m not all that.

By Zara Denison

Perhaps reason everyone you meet seems “out of your league” isn’t because they really are, maybe that’s a side effect of imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome…

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Beauty & Health

If you D.A.R.E…

By Zara Denison

As the old proverb goes, “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” Despite the years of cumulated knowledge and…

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Fashion

Is This Too Much for a Little Bar in Jersey?

By Zara Denison

The unofficial holiday before Thanksgiving, Black-Out Wednesday, is a high stakes holiday. It’s the time to have fun, reunite with old flames and show off…

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