The Ithacan

Accuracy • Independence • Integrity

On Sept. 30, Harvard University won a lawsuit against Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), a conservative legal organization hell–bent on wiping out affirmative action programs on college campuses in the U.S.

I’m urging fellow outspoken atheists to understand that their crude approach toward religion inadvertently nurtures the sort of fundamentalism they are supposedly against.

Do racial epithets have any place in the classroom? They certainly should. Classes are spaces where no controversial topic is off the table.

Fact: President Donald Trump’s racist and xenophobic rhetoric inspires white nationalism.

There are countless examples of activists who’ve had their professional and personal lives destroyed for speaking out against the discriminatory practices of the Israeli state.

But I doubt this flexing will achieve much, considering the fact that Trump’s order can easily be overturned by a democratic administration.

I think it would be beneficial if Ithaca College put wellness into the curriculum.

Omar shouldn’t have apologized for her remarks on AIPAC. And I’m glad to see her and Tlaib become the first two American politicians refusing to toe the pro-Israel line.  

I will probably never be comfortable with nonblack usages of n—a and especially n—er, even if they’re merely referring to it and not using it.

I’m proud to see fellow queer students fighting against harassment and discrimination and pushing for more visibility on campus. It’s a very difficult space to be in and there aren’t easy solutions.

This begs the question, “why are people more inclined to give women who are alleged sexual abusers the benefit of the doubt?”

Reed College isn’t an anomaly. In the past, students at other institutions have objected to studying the scholarship of white men, dead or alive.