Sexual assault is an epidemic facing all corners of our society. Before the “Me Too” movement, much of the national conversation about the crisis centered on rape culture on college campuses. This centrality of discourse led to Lawrence and its institutional peers to make a number of reforms when it came to how they adjudicate…

Over the course of my time at Lawrence, I have had the privilege to be able to travel for field experiences and study abroad programs. While in Morocco and India, I was able to speak with people working on the front lines to fight radicalization by reaching out to the hearts and minds of the…

While in India on my study abroad trip, I fell into a friend group made up of international Afghani students who had come to India on student visas to get Master’s degrees. The men got degrees in Government, Engineering and Economics. Some of the men confided that it was safer to study in India so…

I’ve been thinking a lot about the jokes people make these days now that we are living in this modern age of discord. It seems as if the Late Night bits have become like Law and Order parodies. The news is even more disturbing and repetitive. I think most of us with sane heads know…

In this modern national landscape of political, social and moral division, it is easy to put responsibility on the “other” instead of examining our own beliefs, actions and words, especially as young people. It was, as I’m sure many of you know, older white folks who delivered 45 his narrow victory in the electoral college.…