BY RACHEL IDA BUFF On April 7, Marquette University Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), with full knowledge and consent by the university administration, planted 41,000 flags to symbolize the death toll from the ongoing genocide in Gaza. That night, three Zionist educators not affiliated with the university desecrated the memorial. One of them carried…
BY Z. W. TAYLOR AND PATRICIA SOMERS Only a few decades after the 1789 signing of the US Constitution, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison sat on the board of visitors for the University of Virginia. Both Jefferson and Madison, originalists and contributors to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, supported the University of Virginia…
BY MARTIN KICH Yesterday, teachers, parents, and students across Colorado were spared any sort of repeat of the Columbine massacre, but as the anniversary of that horrible tragedy approaches, they, and all of us, were reminded of just how vulnerable our schools remain. Indeed, the same can be said about the vulnerability of most of…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH The following are two excerpts from an article compiled by the staff of the magazine The Week. The article provides a succinct overview of how the National Rifle Association has evolved, and it is worth reading in full. But I found these two excerpts (which are not sequential) especially enlightening because…
POSTED BY THE AAUP As students across the country walked out of school Wednesday—one month after the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida—and rallied for gun control, we see how powerful solidarity on this issue can be. In an interview with the news program 60 Minutes over the weekend secretary of education…
POSTED BY THE AAUP Gun violence is not a problem limited to high schools. Colleges and universities have been sites of mass shootings since the 1960s. The mere presence of guns on campus or in the classroom limits academic freedom, potentially affecting the choice of course materials, how far faculty members should press students to…