On October 18, 2021, General Colin Powell died, following the death of fellow Bush Administration official Donald Rumsfeld earlier this year on June 29. On February 25, 2020, ousted Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak died at the age of 91. And on April 8, 2013, and June 5, 2004, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former President Ronald Reagan both died. Each one of these deaths has sparked debates about how to react when someone with a controversial past dies.
I am an abolitionist. I believe that we, as a society, should do away with the carceral criminal justice system. I am against policing...
Whenever society is on the brink of change, those who benefit...
Lawrence has created a new position of Second-Year Dean and appointed Juan Arguello as the inaugural officeholder, according to an...
Since Welcome Week, Community Advisors (CAs) at Lawrence have been negotiating with the administration about working conditions and pay. A...
The Lawrence University Department of Residential Education and Housing (ResEd) has made policy changes for the 2023-2024 academic year and...
Lawrence’s Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Catherine Kodat, is leaving at the end of June for a terminal sabbatical....
In a world so devoid of hope, it’s important to recognize that working class people can still win. When you look at the state of global politics, it can be difficult seeing the far right come to power in places like Hungary, India and Brazil, while the alternative to fascism seems to be neoliberal politicians like Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron. But Latin America is beginning to resist the global lurch towards fascism and the status quo of neoliberalism. The period between 2000 and 2010 was known as the Pink Tide in Latin
October 2021 was known as “Striketober” due to all the militant labor activity taking place around the country. As the month came to an end, Striketober turned into Strikevember, Strikesgiving and other strike-themed portmanteaus. The point is, the labor movement is not a fluke, and this resurgence continued even as 2021 came to a close.
After a recent change in the size of the reusable “clamshell” containers that Bon Appétit provides for students to take...