Inclusive, honest, ambitious, kind, innovative, responsive; the list goes on. These are the character traits that Western students are looking for in our new university president. We need someone to take off from where President Bruce Shepard leaves, with a vision of our school’s future becoming increasingly diverse and continuing down a path of — you guessed it — “Active Minds Changing Lives.”
I recently heard from a student in Bellingham named Beatrice. She is studying to become a teacher. But after holding down multiple jobs, selling plasma, and managing a full class load, she’s struggling. She can’t make rent and she hasn’t been able to afford groceries in a month.
A renaissance of student activism is sweeping this nation, with its own permutation on our own campus. The destinies of important social issues have fallen squarely into the laps of college-age Americans, and it’s up to us to see them through.
This letter to the editor was written by Madelaine Stubblefield, a Western sophomore.
“I’d say he would have pretty good intel into who the people are, seeing as he was a senator before. Probably in some ways they’ll support his agenda but it depends on if that’s a good thing or bad thing for the supreme court to decide.”
When Senate Republican leaders said earlier this month that they would reject any Supreme Court pick from President Obama, they were entirely within their right. The vote they cast decides whether the appointment is a good fit, and this is proper politics. But by vowing to not hold any meetings, hearings or votes related to an Obama choice, they are doing the country an enormous disservice.
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“I would feel like that was a really big invasion of privacy and I wouldn’t see a point in that being necessary for somebody to have to go through photos and social media."
Encrypted data, multinational technology giants and the U.S. government. It all sounds very spy-chic, but the latest case revolving around Apple and FBI is anything but fantasy, and it concerns the rectangle sitting in your pocket.
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