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A sign promoting social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic in front of Edmon Low Library on Sunday, March 29, 2020.
Connor Burgan Staff Reporter OSU sophomore Ryder Bates had the “typical fresh-
men experience” yanked away from him last year. Between following guidelines and navigating through a socially-distanced, mask-filled campus, Bates began to have limited time
for himself. “One of the major problems was the lack of free time I was offered due to work and no time off. All work and no play,” he said. Now that OSU an-
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nounced that masks and social distancing are gone, sophomores like Bates and other students are finally looking to flip the page this upcoming school year and finally know what it’s like to
be a college student. Sophomore Matthew Sitar can’t wait for this. “Arguably, the biggest part of going away to col See Mask Off on pg.2
a profit, of course, but not the right of workers to share in those earnings — that success — that they help generate,” Phillips said at a launch event A pair of House Demo- Friday. crats with C-suite experience “As we look to rebuild launched a Stakeholder Capi- our economy in the wake of talism Caucus this month, a very devastating pandemic, embracing an economic we must look to reimagine it,” concept that Republicans have Houlahan said. “Our environincreasingly railed against as ment, our national security, “woke” capitalism. our economy, our health care The new caucus will — they’re all greatly threatadvocate for policies that will ened by the inaction that encourage U.S. businesses to we’ve had on climate change.” more broadly share the wealth “Stakeholder capitalthey create and deploy Ameri- ism” stands somewhere can ingenuity to tackle the between the socialism that world’s most pressing chalanimates much of the left, lenges, said co-founders Dean and the idea of shareholder Phillips of Minnesota and capitalism that underpins Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsyl- free-market thinking. Most vania. famously espoused by Milton “We’ve long emphasized the right of business to make See Captialism on pg.3