ELIOT RATZMAN | VISITING PROFESSOR Last week SNC’s administration swiftly put out a statement about the horrific shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue. President Bruess declared: “We stand firm against any dogma that discriminates on the basis of creed, race, ethnicity or culture. We also painfully and mindfully recognize that the history of Christian… Read More Op-Ed: The Tree of Life and the Roots of Antisemitism
SUBMITTED BY ALEX GRUBER | OMICRON DELTA KAPPA Attn: St. Norbert College Health and Wellness Services Thank you for your outreach to us concerning the tobacco-free campus initiative at St. Norbert College. We the undersigned, members of the St. Norbert College circle of Omicron Delta Kappa, support this initiative’s goal of achieving and maintaining a… Read More Letter to the Editor: ODK Petition for Greater Focus on Mental Health
BRITTANY VOSEN | CLASS OF 2020 I am passionate about the health of SNC students and staff. In fact, I took the job as SPARK mini grant tobacco awareness student worker because of how smoking has impacted my family. My dad has been tobacco free for 5 months, and I am so happy to see… Read More Letter to the Editor: A Tobacco-Free Campus
“Club Pulse, Dancers, Victims … CAGED PEOPLE/SCREAMERS, Extras needed trying to escape a cage! … SOUNDS INTERESTING? COME OUT THIS SATURDAY!!!” Tyrone Tappler Productions posted this advertisement on August 31st on Facebook in an attempt to get volunteers that would depict the Pulse shootings in a haunted house. Fernwood Elementary School in Chicago was set… Read More Letter to the Editor
Jennifer Harvey lays it all out in her book, which you should all read, “Dear White Christians.” We should all be living our lives in opposition to whiteness. Not white people in their human existence, but the whiteness that is inherently grounded in racist agendas. In the Americas, specifically the United States, whiteness as racial… Read More Letter to the Editor: There Is No Separation Between Whiteness and White Supremacy
SETH HOFFMEISTER & MAGGIE McCONNAHA ’18 The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) just released the 2015 National Environmental Scorecard, which evaluates the most anti-environmental Congress in our history. This is in direct contrast to President Obama, who led the way on combating climate change and conserving our environment. Too many members of Congress were complicit… Read More National Environmental Scorecard: Ron Johnson Scores Zero
To the Editor: Re “The Sympathetic Silence is Killing Me” (opinion, Oct. 26) Note: While it is a fact that anyone can be sexually assaulted or be the perpetrator of an assault, the article at hand focused on the relationship between cisgender men and women. It focused particularly on the dichotomy of men as perpetrators… Read More Letter to the Editor
