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Quincy Balius

Two left feet: A swing dancing story

What do big bands, a 1930s aesthetic, and fast footwork all have in common? They’re all elements of a type of dance called swing, which originated with jazz music between the 1920s and 1940s. Today, swing thrives at MSU through the work of SwingCats, a club that is dedicated

Destigmatization is a Societal Prescription for Mental Illness

America has placed mental illness on a rock-bottom level of importance for far too long. Our cultural landscape deeply values independence and the concept of pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. As such, we ignore, dismiss or openly mock those who struggle with mental illness, even if we struggle

Resolution? More Like Resolu-done: Why I Stopped Making New Year’s

Here’s a bad joke for all you avid Exponent readers: “A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.” About two years ago, I broke this cycle by giving up on making them, just as I had abandoned each of the

Ghostwriter breathes life into WWII

How do we begin to heal the scars left behind by trauma? Ghostwriter and editor Anika Hanisch found the answer in storytelling. On Jan. 15, the Honors College hosted Hanisch for her lecture “Surviving War, Building Better Paths.” One of Hanisch’s passion projects was to co-author a WWII

Wealth and waste

Museum of the Rockies hosted its final Extreme History lecture of the year on Thursday, Nov. 15. Jennifer Dunn, a Ph.D. candidate at MSU, took her place at the podium on a dark and cloudy evening. Her lecture focused on the history of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund

Trump’s Rally Obsession is Bigly Bad for Montana

“What a crowd! You are incredible people.” If this phrase sounds familiar, it’s because President Donald Trump has used some iteration of it to kick off the 50-plus rallies he has held since winning the presidency. Dozens of these rallies were specifically intended to raise support for his

The golden cages of and broken dreams of child migration

How much can the American Dream endure before it breaks? “La Jaula de Oro,” titled in English as “The Golden Dream,” is a Spanish dramatic road movie about unaccompanied child migration from Central America to the United States. Its documentary style takes a hard look at the inequalities and violence