November 2012
November 26th, 2012
Written by Kimberlee McWhirter in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 14 Comments
I cannot change that I’m white, heterosexual, able-bodied, American, middle class, English speaking, educated; I was born with these privileges. I did not ask for them, nor did I earn them, but with them comes a responsibility to recognize that these privileges exist, to educate myself about the system of social inequality, and to work towards social justice and equity.
According to Sociologist...
November 26th, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 9 Comments
If there was any doubt of a racial component during the past election after the coordinated attempts at targeted voter ID laws to disenfranchise racial minority voters, a number of events following the election have shown that racism seems to run deeper than thought and that a post-racial change in our cultural-political society has a long way to go.
“I wonder how many students sat in their dorm...
November 23rd, 2012
Written by Emily Wagster P... in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three federal judges say they won't redraw Mississippi's legislative districts or order the state to hold a new round of elections in 2013.
The order came Monday in a lawsuit that the state chapter of the NAACP had filed earlier to challenge state House and Senate redistricting.
Legislative maps have to be updated once a decade to account for population changes, giving more...
November 23rd, 2012
Written by The Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
The Hays Daily News, Nov. 18
The Kansas Secretary of State Office usually is low profile. Statutes guide the rather perfunctory roles it performs.
Not so with Kris Kobach, whose national and state moonlighting has made him the face of Kansas for outsiders.
One of two, in reality, as Gov. Sam Brownback's grander political ambitions keep him in the spotlight as well. With unreserved backing from...
November 23rd, 2012
Written by Mitch Weiss - A... in Religion's Mighty Rivers, Latest News with 0 Comments
RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) — A man who claims he's being stalked for helping a 22-year-old man escape a North Carolina church that abused him for being gay says the harassment won't stop him from encouraging others to leave.
Jerry Cooper has filed false imprisonment and stalking complaints against four members of the Word of Faith Fellowship church.
The complaints stem from Cooper's visit to the...