Hypocrisy in the Pause
To preface this article, I would like to iterate that there are honest, hardworking student management members who are dear friends of mine. Therefore, this article should not be viewed as all-encompassing. The reasons for this article are two-fold.
Despite all the doom in gloom in many articles about environmental impacts, they are immensely helpful for us to read. They help us avoid the consequences we will suffer if we don’t change our ways.
Of all the social justice issues we hear about in the media, few seem to be getting less coverage than the American prison system.
In the climate change debate – the hottest scientific issue out there – it’s clear who is playing the modernized role of Copernicus and Chambers. But who are the skeptics? And what (if anything) are they thinking?
Last April, a team of St. Olaf students won the National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest, where students compete to build a machine that does a simple task in a complicated way. St. Olaf was the only school in the competition without an engineering program and the only non-engineering college to ever bring home the title.
Doodling seems like a fairly harmless activity. Granted, damaging school property can become a big problem, so a fine would not have seemed far out of line. However, Gonzalez was handcuffed in front of her class, and then escorted to the police precinct.
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