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The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

Katja Benz is a senior English major and can be reached at 581-2912 or kkbenz@eiu.edu.

COLUMN: Yet again, a mass tragedy

Katja Benz, Columnist February 16, 2023

There have been two mass shootings on or around Valentine’s Day that I am aware of. I was an eighteen-year-old high school senior on Feb. 14, 2018, when the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass...

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