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Views on the News: University of Chicago

  | 09/05/2016

Last week, incoming freshmen to the University of Chicago received a welcome letter declaring that the school would not promote trigger warnings, cancel potentially controversial speakers or condone safe spaces.

EDITORIAL: Improve diversity of Hiatt Career Center

by The Justice Editorial Board | 09/05/2016

Many activists, administrators and onlookers alike during last year’s Ford Hall 2015 movement agreed that adding more clinicians of color — specifically, professionals specializing in multicultural mental health — to the Brandeis Counseling Center would be an important and easy-to-implement policy to aid the student body.

EDITORIAL: Communicate stances on key issues

by The Justice Editorial Board | 08/30/2016

The fall 2016 semester has finally begun, and one person on campus is dreading a very specific kind of pop quiz: University President Ronald Liebowitz. Thus far in his two months-long tenure as the head of the school, Liebowitz has been able to avoid direct comment on the major issues galvanizing the student body.

Consider potential detriments of refusing to accept Syrian refugees

by Ben Feshbach | 08/30/2016

Whether  the U.S. should increase the number of refugees it is willing to accept and resettle is a debate often framed in terms of compassion versus security: Those in favor of taking more refugees assert that it is the humane thing to do, our moral calling as Americans; those against warn that accepting refugees from the Syrian Civil War will threaten our national security because some of them might be terrorists.  Although progressives like myself think that American inclusivity is self-evidently supportive of refugees, that hasn’t convinced conservatives thus far.

Examine the rising inequality of opportunity in American society

by Andrew Jacobson | 05/23/2016

In his 1835 text “Democracy in America,” French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville was perhaps most captivated by what he dubbed America’s “equality of condition.” According to the First Principles Journal, de Tocqueville employed this phrase to refer not to “the literal material equality of all American citizens, but rather the universal assumption that no significance was to be accorded to any apparent differences—material, social, or personal.”  This innate equality was initially affirmed in the Declaration of Independence’s “self-evident” “truth” that “all men are created equal.” Rather than signifying that citizens were promised equal outcomes, this clause expressed that all are born with equal dignity and guaranteed objective treatment before the law.  Of course, the Founders’ 18th-century notion of equality was far from how we conceive the principle today.

Views on the News: Class of 2016

  | 05/23/2016

In light of Commencement, members of the Class of 2016 have the opportunity to look back at their college careers and their growth over the past four years.

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