A CHALLENGED IDENTITY The image of a stereotypical American doesn’t fit with what most people would consider “American ideals,” a country that sells itself as a melting pot for multiculturalism. With the recent success of blockbusters starring non-traditional actors like […]
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Hazy Consent
FINDING THE LINE IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT Okay, I’ll admit it. One morning in my 20s, I woke up, after drinking too much, to a desperate gut-punch of a question: “Did we use protection?” We had. Of course […]
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UPHOLDING FREE SPEECH WITHIN COMMUNITY STANDARDS On Monday, June 4, a man on campus used a large sign with harsh language on it to denounce Islam directly in front of the PUB. A number of classrooms reported the volume of […]
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TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL STUDENT OF COLOR CONFERENCE Students of color come together every year to learn how to battle the racism and discrimination that continues to exist in America today at the Students of Color Conference. The 28th Annual Students of […]
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“LARAMIE” SHOWS HOW FAR WE’VE YET TO GO President Barack Obama signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crime Prevention Act on October 28, 2009. SCC’s “The Laramie Project” focuses on one of the bill’s namesakes, Shepard, an […]
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SOCIAL JUSTICE GROUP SEEKS POSITIVE CHANGE. There’s a new movement on campus. Not a club. A Collective. The Social Justice Collective (SJC) is a group dedicated to seeking equity and social justice in the SCC community, filled with people from […]
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