Sam Gladden | Columnist

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Sam is a freshman from Peachtree City, Georgia. She is majoring in English and started with The Plainsman in fall 2025.

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COLUMN | Environmental impact of generative AI

By Sam Gladden | Columnist | November 10

Many say that AI, especially generative AI, is our future; they argue there is no other option but to indulge this new technology, and we as a society are going to fully integrate it within the coming years. If this is true, we must find an eco-friendly way to go about it. As it is right now, AI is a waste of energy and a regurgitation of pre-existing work. We need to do better.

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COLUMN | Painting over Pride

By Sam Gladden | Columnist | September 23

Painting over a memorial depicting the pain of being someone LGBTQ+ in the United States is a targeted act of hate. Defending the action with the misguided claim that it was done to prevent “political” markings rather than the truth of the matter — that Florida officials destroyed a memorial — is ignorant. Nobody’s existence is political.

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