Category: Viewpoints

Ian Benson There was a moment last week when I contemplated going to Relay for Life. I thought about heading over to the Scot Center, getting a survivor’s shirt (lymphoma, summer of 2011) and running 104 laps, one for every day I experienced treatment. I considered writing the names of family and friends and peers…

Travis Marmon When I was distributing issues of the Voice two weeks ago with a headline about the College installing security cameras on Beall, I was surprised by how quickly people reacted to the news. Some students were excited, saying it was just what the campus needed. Others were vocally displeased, saying things like “this…

Erica Rickey Reflecting on the recent speaker on campus, Michael Kimmel, it is interesting to me how ideas of masculinity should be important to feminism. The two concepts are typically juxtaposed as oppositional and irreconcilable, but Mr. Kimmel helped me realize that could not be further from the truth. Masculinity is intimately intertwined with feminism,…

Gina Christo This past week k(NO)w, the anti-sexual assault organization on campus, used part of the art wall to spread the message of sexual respect on campus. One of the panels asked “How Do You Define Sexual Respect” and provided pens for people to respond. One original student turned our label on the pens box…

Jai Ranchod A recent article in the Voice noted that the 3.9 percent increase in comprehensive fee is the lowest in recent years and is significantly lower than the 4.5 percent and 4.6 percent it has been over the previous two years specifically. That the rate of increase is down is undoubtedly good, but it…

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one group of students to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect…