Trump’s response to Puerto Rican disaster leaves much to be desired
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There’s a humanitarian crisis going on in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands.
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There’s a humanitarian crisis going on in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made several statements about the policies surrounding free speech on some college campuses. Citing examples of campuses like Georgia Gwinnett College — where students are limited to expressing themselves in specific “free speech zones” — Sessions rightly said that there is an issue with the suppression of free speech on college campuses. This is reprehensible, if not outright authoritarian, and needs to be halted.
Riots erupted following the shooting of Georgia Tech student Scout Schultz, who was the leader of Pride Alliance and part of the LGBTQ+ community on campus. The story of this student highlights many different controversial topics within our current society, such as mental illness, the LGBTQ+ community, and the stigma behind them.
Chambersburg Area School District (CASHS) has become the subject of widespread attention because of its decision to cancel and forfeit a high school football game due to an anonymous threat of violence on social media preceding the game on Sept. 15. While threats of this nature are nothing new for high schools, what has drawn so much attention to this case in particular is the perception of racial tensions at the school. Yet another reminder that our community is just as susceptible to these problems as anywhere else in the country.
Last weekend an unlikely group of super fans, known as Juggalos, marched in Washington, D.C. The devout followers of the rap duo Insane Clown Posse (or ICP) used their constitutional right to protest the FBI’s labelling of fans as a gang.
ESPN host and contributor Jemele Hill, was under fire last week over expressing her honest yet raw opinion about President Donald Trump being a white supremacist. She voiced her opinion in a twitter feed that threatened her job, right to freedom of speech, and overall well-being as a black woman in today’s society. Hill openly expressed that Trump “is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period.”
Members of the Republican Party and the Trump Administration are making great strides to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice sided with a Colorado Christian bakery on Sept. 7 who had refused to bake a cake for a gay couple several years ago. This has brought about a resurfacing of the issue central to this story — are businesses compelled to serve customers of differing viewpoints or lifestyles?
Here we go again. It seems every couple of years North Korea is in the headlines making threats to use nuclear weapons when they are pushed too far by the United States. A common theme running throughout the issue is the inability of the U.S. to deal with the problem North Korea presents to the world. If North Korea is able to fit a nuclear weapon on a missile with the capability to strike the United States or its allies, then at what point does the international community say enough is enough? The question may be more complex than that.
Thank you for checking out Ship Sound Off. The goal of this series is to give students a platform to express their opinions on one issue per week. In light of constitution day this past weekend, I decided to kick the series off by finding out why students think the first amendment is important.
Fans of NBC’s hit show “The Office” may recall a scene in which Michael Scott, despite protests from Dwight Schrute, follows his GPS into a lake, submerging his car in the water. While this sequence of events may have garnered laughs from the sitcom’s fans in its day, it has actually become a life-threatening reality — reminding us of the importance of our undivided attention while driving.
It was an absolute shock to victims and students across the U.S. when Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spoke at George Mason University about the changes she hoped to make to parts of Title IX regarding sexual assault. She discussed how the Obama administration had “failed too many students,” referring to the sexual-assault and rape policies. I guess the Women’s Marches weren’t enough to communicate to DeVos that sexism and misogyny still reign in our society today.
A mere two weeks after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Eastern Texas, another major hurricane — Hurricane Irma — left a path of destruction as it passed through the Caribbean, Florida and the rest of the Eastern Coast of the U.S.
This labor day weekend, I was fortunate to speak with immigrants in the Reading, Pennsylvania, area and share their stories as part of a literary project called Writing Wrongs. The project, which aims to shed light on a different social issue each year, allowed me to hear from the former supervisor of the Berks County Youth Center and ICE Family Shelter Care Program, an immigration lawyer and a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient named Carlos Adolfo Gonzalez.
A little more than two weeks ago, hordes of people descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia, in preparation for the ‘Unite the Right’ rally that took place on Aug. 12. The catalyst of the rally, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, was the planned removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from Emancipation Park, which was recently renamed from Lee Park.
Like many of you this summer, I found myself scrolling through headlines, peaking through the cracks of my fingers, anxious to see what the next bombshell would be from our current commander in chief, Donald Trump. If it wasn’t one thing, it most certainly was another. We saw him escalate nuclear tensions with North Korea, ban transgender Americans from serving in the military despite an ongoing assessment of the matter by Defense Sec. Jim Mattis, and a massive failure to adequately condemn the bigotry on display by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The search for a new Shippensburg University president reached one of its final stops last week, as each of the final four candidates made their way to SU to spend a day on campus.
