Try to muddle through and do all of them!

...Choosing to focus your efforts on one of these might lead to excellent results in a field, but that wasn't necessarily what you needed, was it? If you screw up your semester after dealing with Ashley, that wouldn't actually fix anything - it would just mean you'd both lose. But it's pretty obvious that you're going to need to back away from classes at least a little if you want to actually do something about Ashley. And of course, you can't just neglect Taylor, right? Whatever Ashley is planning involves her, and you'll only need an hour or two to be a good friend here.

And this way, you'll be mitigating your risks; maybe you'll strike out in your fledgling demonology, or maybe you'll be too distracted to learn, but you're guaranteed to make progress somewhere. That leaves you better positioned to catch up in the following days.

Plus, you were a college student, right? Running a day or two on pure caffeine was practically a tradition; you could catch up on sleep when you were all slutted-out after seeing Ashley. Yeah, the more you thought about it, the less reason there was to consider compromising here. You had a free Saturday, and you didn't exactly take a ton of weekend classes; you could protect your grade and your school both.

With that in mind, you resumed checking over your notes for "Media and Public Policy". Though you'd just picked up the course to round out your credits, it was actually one of your more interesting courses at the moment; the discussions it put forward regarding how seemingly sound policy could end up hurting disempowered groups, and how murky the ground surrounding truth and consequences could be ended up being pretty thought-provoking in the context of the other history courses you'd taken.

And, um, in your current demon-firing. Because you could stir up a witch-hunt against her, probably, and be justified in doing so... But Ashley was protected by some pretty powerful people who could boomerang that right back on you, make you the ugly face of unchecked social media witch hunts and demand new laws to stop people like you. And not unjustifiably, either; you had gone out of your way to entrap her, and there were probably other people following in your footsteps, going after succubae who weren't perverting the purpose of their classes or hunting students throughout the school. Except, those succubae probably weren't being protected by a powerful coven of demon worshippers. Where should the line be drawn? You didn't know, and the class probably wouldn't have an answer for you... But, at least you'd probably be better equipped to consider all the risks by the end.

...Damn it, you ended up thinking about your demons instead of your notes again, didn't you? This time around, you needed to examine the case of a train a few years back that was allegedly used by the mob, allegedly hella neglectful in maintenance, and allegedly raided by overzealous FBI agents - and derailed to a few million dollars worth of damages and a dozen people dead. Every detail had some pretty firm evidence, but no smoking-gun ties. Every implied tie reported would be extremely damning for the groups implicated. And every detail would lead to the powerful groups implicated doing everything in their power to shut down the story, through various means - setting aside that a newspaper at the time would be a pretty powerful group on their own.

Your mind already starts wandering towards the questions that would be raised in class - about how to balance the truth against the dangers of groundless insinuations and smears, about the risk of hiding real problems behind an insurmountably high standard of evidence, and whether truth should even be a real priority here when all of the accusations were independently true in other cases in the time period... But, that wasn't the important thing at the moment. For now, you just needed to study the case in as great as detail as possible so that you wouldn't be completely lost when the professor started discussing how regulatory changes here would be used and abused, and start linking them to modern implications.