Opinion
Opinion
Opinion: Intimidated in pursuit of the truth
By The Western Front | May 29The Western Front will continue to to hold those in power accountable, as we've been taught to do by our department.
Opinion
Opinion: More mandatory trainings could mean less EOO reports
By Julia Berkman | May 23When you’re hired at Western as a faculty or staff member, you have to complete an online training known as EverFi. It’s a program that takes up to an hour to complete and trains users on spotting and preventing sexual assault and violence. In addition to that, faculty and staff must complete a separate training on workplace sexual harassment through the Equal Opportunity Office, with a refresher course every three years.
Editorial
Opinion: When protesting is productive– and when it’s not
By Julia Berkman | May 21When Western’s chapter of Students for Life of America brought Kristan Hawkins, the president of the national organization, to speak on campus, her talk was fraught with controversy. Days before the event, a poster advertising the event, titled “Lies Feminists Tell,” was lit on fire. A group of community members organized a direct action against the event, making educational handbills and protesting outside the Communications Facility. They said Hawkins was there to spread hate under the guise of the pro-life movement.
Opinion
Opinion: Keeping AS employees from making public candidate endorsements disenfranchises Western's community
By Julia Berkman | May 2Associated Students Elections are a time of year at Western where it really matters that you keep up with what’s happening. There are candidate debates on Facebook, campaigns being run on Instagram and discussions to be read on Twitter.
Letters to the Editor
Guest Column: College finally gave me the direction I needed
By Julia Berkman | May 2-Eric Trent, Journalism Student
Editorial
Frontline: 420 is a privilege, not a right
By Julia Berkman | April 20It’s time again for the “holiday” of choice for stoners: 4/20. The name, started by a group of high schoolers in San Rafael, California, referred at first to the time of day whereupon these stoners would ditch class and smoke weed. Soon, the terminology and culture of 4/20 spread everywhere, and it became the bonafide cannabis indicator, joining the ranks of Bob Marley tapestries and white dreadlocks as a symbol of the popular plant.
Opinion
Guest Column: Obsession, Expectation and Disappointment
By Julia Berkman | April 15Western and its diversity problem, as told by a professor who's been here since 1997
Editorial
Opinion: A hat is just a hat, until it's not
By Julia Berkman | April 3God, I wish this was a joke. Even if it isn’t a joke, it has a pretty good punchline. Here’s the set-up: a guy walks onto a liberal campus in a Make America Great Again hat. Sounds funny, right? Sounds like a joke you’d hear at open-mic night your freshman year, sitting with a bunch of people you only vaguely know in the Underground Coffeehouse.
