Kevin Ssonko ’20, Opinion Columnist
April 28, 2018
Filed under Opinion
It has become quite a habit of mine to pay attention to the popular intellectual discourse. It seems from my interpretation in our times the common discourse is one in the distribution of power much more so than the distribution ...
Justine Hayward ’18, Guest Writer
April 26, 2018
Filed under Opinion
“You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.”
From Still I rise by Maya Angelou.
Once an acquaintance t...
Aboody Rumman ’20, Opinion Columnist
April 26, 2018
Filed under Opinion
It is not uncommon to hear people lamenting about the condition of the world today. Whether it’s rising hate speech, unsafe living conditions or just horrible people. There is an abundance of things to point at to...
Zeshi Wang ’20, Opinion Columnist
April 26, 2018
Filed under Opinion
In my China’s Economic Reform after 40 Years class, I was thrilled to be able to gain a deeper insight into many grassroots social movements taking place in rural China. I was most impressed by the scale of protests...
Duncan Hopkins ’19, Opinion Columnist
April 26, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Those of us who are sane can agree that racism is bad, but can we all claim not to be racist? Hardly. Just before I started to write this, I took a racial implicit association test (racial IAT), which tracks your association...
Jessica Oren ‘21, Copy Editor
April 26, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Coming from a high school where the dining hall disasters ranged from soggy, memory-foam-like tofu to sandwiches with the bread so stale we couldn’t even feed it to the ducks on the pond, my first visit to the Dickinson Caf...
Joshua Riebel ’20, Opinion Columnist
April 26, 2018
Filed under Opinion
No. Or to be more precise, there is nothing Disney can do to “ruin” Star Wars. A New Hope is and will always be a classic film; The Empire Strikes Back may be better still, and despite Disney’s penchant for beating ideas...
Aleks Syniec ’18, Guest Writer
April 19, 2018
Filed under Opinion
To Karl Marx, all history is a history of class struggle; under feudalism there was class conflict between the lords and the serfs, under capitalism class conflict is between the proletariat and the bourgeois, under...
Leda Fisher ’19, Guest Writer
April 19, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Last weekend I went to the 10th annual JStreet National Conference in Washington D.C. JStreet is a pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, pro-peace organization that seeks to use America and the American Jewry’s influence to create...
Duncan Hopkins ’19, Opinion Columnist
April 19, 2018
Filed under Opinion
On Halloween weekend last year, a Dickinson student was dressed as Colin Kaepernick- blackface and all [Editor’s Note: this claim to blackface cannot be confirmed]. In the Fall of 2015 another Dickinson student wore ...
