How can students fight back against a growing culture of ‘alternative facts’ and a weakening department of education? With the confirmation that Betsy DeVos is indeed the next head of the Department of Education, many students are worried that the future of their education is in jeopardy. Those most at risk appear to be students in the public school system who ... Read More »
Hate crimes are on the rise. This is apparent. Along with that comes the rise in discussion of a poem by pastor Martin Niemöller in response to the Nazis purging selected groups from Germany and Europe while German intellectuals remained silent. It is titled “First they came for,” for the refrain that remains consistent throughout the poem. Niemöller writes: ... Read More »
As we venture forward into the first year under our new administration, we are being inundated every day with headlines that frighten us. The journalists reporting these frightening headlines almost seem to be just as angry as those they want to inform. Perhaps it is because they are constantly pushed to the side by White House officials and their supporters. ... Read More »
The day after the inauguration, Lewis & Clark hosted a teach-in session on the presence of art in times of social activism. The presence of music during the social reforms of India during the 1950s-1960s, the solitary genius vs. the artistic collective, as well as the importance of solidarity and art made by those affected by prejudice were all ... Read More »
“The fight against fascism continues as protests against Trump and his policies take place here and abroad.” The year 2017 is only a month old and already we have seen massive protests of Donald Trump’s administrative policies. The Women’s March, conducted both here and around the world, has been classified as the largest protest in American history as stated by ... Read More »
To Trump supporters who are vilifying protesters, however peaceful: Please understand that to a lot of people in America, he poses a real danger. Maybe not directly, but his words and his promises incite violence in the hearts of people who support him. There was even a man who got so angry after a black man cut him ... Read More »
“An analysis of the state of sociopolitical discourse after the 2016 election.” The 2016 presidential election has been one of the most verbally charged elections in history. It also appears to have played a part in what modern American political discourse looks like. Before, the figure of “the racist distant relative you only see during holidays” and “Facebook friends ... Read More »
College campuses are trying to figure out how to make safe sex cool in the age of Tinder and Grindr “It’s time for students to have a serious discussion about sex; no, not that one, the other one.” According to the CDC, the rates of STDs are on the rise, particularly in students between the ages of 15 and 24. ... Read More »
Earlier this year, brothers Ammond and Ryan Bundy were two of many militants who seized the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Harney County, Oregon. They had occupied the land from Jan. 2 to Feb. 11 when officers made a final arrest. The group claimed their armed takeover of the land was to protest the federal ownership over the land, which ... Read More »
Politically based website FiveThirtyEight has made their forecasts for this year’s presidential election using voters’ gender identities as a prediction tool. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight took a moment to explain his research before explaining its significance: “. . . While we’re in something of a wait-and-see mode, one demographic split caught my eye. That was from a Public Religion Research ... Read More »
PIOLOG The student-run newspaper of Lewis & Clark College since 1867.