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BAJWA: Building Genuine Allyship

BAJWA: Building Genuine Allyship

By Rimpal Bajwa April 26, 2019

Stuck in a classroom, I sat silently as white people dominated a conversation about race, controlling the narrative as they have done for centuries. Hand after hand went up, and not one belonged to a minority....

VIEWPOINT: Value Intellectual Humility

By Philip Tsien February 24, 2017

In his 1861 treatise “Walking,” a remarkable reflection on life’s ample complexities, Henry David Thoreau poses a question vital even today: “Which is the best man to deal with — he who knows...

SMITH: Noise

SMITH: Noise

By Grace Smith September 1, 2015

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? My restless analysis of this question began with a haircut. Over the summer, I cut off 12 inches of my hair. With...

Is This What Racism Feels Like?

Is This What Racism Feels Like?

By Erika Lim March 20, 2015

“Do you not see? Can you not see this small child? Are your eyes too small?” This stranger’s words hit me like the bus I just walked onto. Like a deer in headlights, I just stood there. Shocked...

CARR: The Anti-Science Debate

By Mallory Carr February 13, 2015

Few labels carry the weight and popular ridicule that accompanies the “anti-science” label. Being “anti-science” is akin to pre-Enlightenment backwardness and indicates an individual should not...

A Dream Deferred

By Tithi Patel January 18, 2015

A mere three miles away from our front gates, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to give a speech that would become one of the defining moments of the Civil Rights Movement. “I...

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