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A Response To The Oppression Olympics
St. Lawrence University has a long history of commitment to diversity. Our Universalist founders were committed to gender equality during a time when male dominance was a societal norm that went virtually unchallenged. In the years since,…
Letter to the Editor: Response to “The Oppression Olympics”
By Lydia Kenney
Last week, Daniel Banta ’18 published an article in The Hill News titled “Tune in For This Year’s Oppression™ Olympics.” I cannot begin to express to you all how deeply disgusted and angered I am by the…
Facebook: To Be Or Not To Be Regulated
Historically, large, unregulated corporations have had detrimental effects on the general public. Because of this, laws such as the antitrust laws, which originated with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, have been put in place with the…
ODK’s New Tapping Announcements Limit Embarrassment
Unless you live under a rock or don’t go to class, you’ve probably seen people walking into class, calling people up, and announcing what ODK does, saying, “congratulations x, you’ve made it in!” They announce when the tapping is and then…
A Response to “The Oppression Olympics”
My biggest problem with the satirical piece editor-in-chief Daniel Banta published last week is his definition of intersectionality.
To some, intersectionality may be the act of looking past similarities to focus on differences, as his…
Beware Of Passion
There is a prevailing belief among many ideologies that is concerning: that objective truth does not exist. Among social justice and feminist theorists, this idea stems from the fact that the pursuit of objective truth was unfortunately…
Ending U.S. Involvement in Yemen
YAL Media Ambassador
The Civil War in Yemen has been a humanitarian disaster, and a new senate bill could end U.S. support for it.
For the past 14 years, the internationally recognized government of Yemen has been fighting on and off…
The Oppression™ Olympics
If you’re tired of following the traditional Olympics, tune into this year’s Oppression™ Olympics. During this event, participants compete to see who’s the most oppressed by the cis-patriarchal power structures that dominate society.…