I was actively being discriminated against by my own people and the experience was devastating. After this experience, I felt as though the only way I could truly be Dominican was if I maintained proximity to whiteness at the expense of my Black identity. Read more »
Four weeks following the death of Amini, the Iranian people are still persisting even with arrests, death, destruction and tragedies. Even with the brutal police violence, the voices of the people are getting louder. Read more »
Students at SU need to break out of their bubble to learn more about the schools in their community. Read more »
Protestors demanded that county-level elected politicians support public housing investments, expand and fully fund lead poisoning interventions, end the County’s practice of union busting, increase government transparency and increase support for the formerly incarcerated. Read more »
From making sure we codify Roe v. Wade to giving better government subsidies and programs to women who want to continue the pregnancy, we need to fix the fundamental failure of individual’s access to reproductive healthcare. Read more »
As SU is a private institution that offers countless scholarships and grants, you could only hope that VPA students would receive the same funding and opportunities as everyone else. Read more »
The United States and the Puerto Rican governments are to blame for Hurricane Fiona. Read more »
In light of Syracuse University's announcement that masking is now an individual decision on our campus, we, as a feminist community, want to offer a counter practice grounded in feminist ethics of care, disability justice, accountability and the notion of collective access. Read more »
For Black Students at a PWI, it’s important to feel at home and to have peers around you that you can relate to. What Black students at SU need is a Union. Read more »
Asylum seekers deserve basic survival needs, too. Human beings cannot be illegal on colonized and stolen land. Read more »
Advocacy means creating space for those coming after you. Read more »
I have so many beautiful moments in my future. I will experience deeper levels of joy, love, and peace, but I wouldn’t know the depth of those emotions if not for my time exploring them here. Read more »
Amidst the chaos of being young and Black in American higher education, it is imperative to find your people, your home, your family. Read more »
The presiding officers of New York’s local courts are making important decisions, yet 72% of the justices of these courts are not lawyers. This needs to change. Read more »
While full-scale electrification is a few years away, SU should start to champion carbon neutrality by integrating a more accessible and efficient EV charging grid on campus. Read more »
It is time for the world to embrace the neurodiversity movement and accept those with ASD as full members of our society, rather than lesser beings. Read more »
SU should help by implementing conventions to educate students about the history of Syracuse, promoting FRN to increase participation of volunteers and minimizing the amount of waste generated in the first place by making less food and donating leftovers. Read more »
COVID-19 ignited the flame that awoke much of the nation to the struggles of higher education accessibility. Read more »
Now is not the time for parties to point fingers for the same behavior they both participate in. Read more »
Many students who used mixed pronouns noted that even when professors did ask for pronouns, they then defaulted to using only the student’s binary pronoun (if they used he/they, she/they, etc.) or the pronoun that best aligned with the student’s outward appearance, even if that was not the student’s only pronoun. Read more »
Abortion rights aren’t just for women and the language we use to express this narrative must change, regardless of an individual’s opinion on reproductive rights. Read more »
From the very beginning of his time at SU, Bruen has been an insider within SA and a friend to the administration, a major reason why many students are so frustrated. Read more »
People are not designed for prolonged isolation, yet many students experienced much more than they were used to once they were taken away from the social environment college offers. Read more »
It’s Time to #CancelStudentDebt Last week, on Jan. 18, along with 110 other student leaders from across the country, I signed a letter calling on… Read more »
