At the recent “Free Thought/ Free Speech” event on campus, I had a conversation with a boy who believed that implicit bias was entirely harmless. He did not understand, or even try to understand, the relationship between internalized prejudice and hate crimes. This snowflake then tried to mansplain to me the concept of implicit bias…
LGBT Visibility and Chechnya
For the last few months at least, the government of the Russian republic of Chechnya has been investigated for torture of members of the LGBT community. To these allegations, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, countered, “Chechen society does not have this phenomenon called non-traditional sexual orientation. For thousands of years the people have lived by other…
White Guilt: Still Wrong
It has always intrigued me: the trope of a white person travelling abroad to “find themselves.” Turn on the TV, open a magazine, look to your left: there it is. Furthermore, despite being the minority in many of these countries, white people still manage to inject their privilege into every aspect of their experience, all…
Views From A PWI
I have been told that attending a predominantly white institution, or a PWI, as a person of color is a learning experience in and of itself. Lawrence is no exception. Growing up on the west coast of the United States, I was not immune to bigotry, underrepresentation, or prejudice, but I experienced it on a…
Choirs perform “Light Amid the Darkness”
Cantala performs in the Chapel. Photo by Kiran Mufty On Saturday, Feb. 25, the Lawrence University Choirs performed their concert “Light Amid the Darkness.” Held in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel, the concert consisted of performances by Viking Chorale, Cantala and Concert Choir. A total of 17 songs were performed, and the choirs were conducted…
New Music Series Concert
Lawrence students and faculty perform in the “The Music of Marcos Balter and Stacey Garrop” from the New Music Series. Photo by Kiran Mufty On Sunday, Feb. 19, a concert entitled “The Music of Marcos Balter and Stacy Garrop” was held in Harper Hall. Part of the New Music Series, this concert was a…
Artist Spotlight: Kelsey Stalker
Photo by Kiran Mufty If you have been to Lawrence and Appleton’s art galleries in the last few years, you may be familiar with the works of fifth-year senior Kelsey Stalker. Stalker is a studio art and environmental studies double-major who enjoys blending her interests in her art pieces. Originally from Janesville, WI, Stalker…
LSO performs “Evocations”
The Lawrence Symphony Orchestra performs their program “Evocations” in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel. Photo by Kiran Mufty On Saturday Jan. 28, the Lawrence University Symphony Orchestra (LSO) performed their first concert of 2017. The performance was held in the Memorial Chapel and was conducted by Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Studies…