The Student Government Association (SGA) is happy to be running at full steam on campus once again and would like to announce some upcoming opportunities for the student body, as well as report on recent successes.
As I sit here and write about the upcoming few months, I am reminded of the importance behind wanting a change. It’s easy to want a specific change, but it’s harder to make it happen. I use journalism as a way to introduce a change. I obviously cannot do it by myself, but I believe that if more people used their voices, change would be much more possible.
“It’s free. Period.” Walk into any women’s or all-gender restroom on campus this semester, and you will now be welcomed by that tagline. Announced by SU News on Aug. 12, free period products are now available campus-wide. The announcement of SU’s new initiative was brief — a press release of just over 200 words — but the fight for free menstrual products and gender equity on campus has been long.
As the presidential race enters its final seven weeks, both campaigns have been spending a lot of time in the Keystone State. Pennsylvania is among several battleground states that will decide the outcome of the 2024 presidential election with its 19 electoral college votes.
The start of a new school year is hard. It is not hard in the way that classes are strenuous, assignments are brutal or the balance between school and life is impossible. It is hard in the way that we, as students, almost forget what it is like to practice our core values when a new year develops.
Pennsylvania is slated to be a primary battleground state as the 2024 general election continues to heat up. Quite a lot has changed over the summer, transforming the race into one that would have been unrecognizable a few months ago.
One way or another, another summer has ended, and we are back in the routine of the fall semester. This time of year is always full of excitement across campus with new changes, new faces and the promise of a new academic year in front of us. One of the most exciting changes for me is that I am beginning my senior year as The Slate’s Editor-in-Chief for the next academic year. As EIC, I want to address our readers directly and lay out my promises of what you can expect from our organization over the coming months.
“Do you have any idea what a provost even does?” That’s how Darrell Newton opened his speech at Shippensburg University’s 2024 Convocation. For over 30 years, he has been on a mission to find out.
The parking lot outside Stewart Hall was a real “who’s who” of Shippensburg University Friday afternoon.
Dickinson College has now joined the ranks of other universities all over the country that have established encampments to protest the ongoing war in Gaza.
“Like the cactus, they can demolish the stones, but the roots stay and will come back up.” This was one of many thought-provoking statements said by James Zogby, chair of the DNC Ethnic Council, in Stewart Hall on Monday, April 22. Zogby’s speech, which was part of the International Studies department’s annual lecture program, focused on the Palestinian culture of resistance both before and after the Oct. 7 attack that sparked the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza.
A new semester will begin in the fall, and so will our new executive leadership committee. I could not be more honored and excited to begin serving our hardworking students at this university as SGA president.
As we enter into the final weeks of the semester, Dr. Burg and Dr. Cella wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the Class of 2024.
I do not usually believe in things being “meant to be.” I do not believe in love at first sight. I do not buy into astrology and what I should allegedly be like as a Cancer. I do not believe there is a God. I know, however, that Elizabeth Peters and I were meant to meet.
I sobbed so hard I almost threw up when I lost my pencil case last semester. My small, yellow, Choonshik the Kakao friend pencil case disappeared at the end of last November, and I tore apart campus trying to find it. Inside was a lead pencil, small pen, eraser and sticky notes, but the reason a part of me died in The Slate office when I realized it was lost forever was not because of the contents. I was inconsolable because the case itself had been a gift from Siwon, my Korean roommate from Soonchunhyang University in South Korea.
