“I had a wonderful dream on Friday night. I dreamed the river ran free that on its roaring horse it rode over stones, past the border of farms” These words, from Persian poet Latif Nazemi’s work entitled “A Word for Freedom,” appeared momentarily on the screen of Dewitt Theatre’s stage on Sept. 19 and…
Song. Play. Oration. 84 years of friendly competition, dazzling performances, and Nykerk Love. Nykerk is a competition between freshman and sophomore women in three different areas: song, play, and oration. Junior and senior coaches arrange the music, write the plays and guide the orators as they craft seven-minute monologues. After 21 days of practice and…
September 11 marks a sobering anniversary in American history that left the world shellshocked. This day now also marks one of the most dramatic shifts in U.S. immigration policy of the twenty-first century, creating the already arduous process of applying for asylum even more complex. Just a few weeks ago the Supreme Court established new…
The relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia is a complicated one. It’s like being in a relationship where you depend on your frenemy to put gas in your car every day, but you and your frenemy don’t believe in any of the same things, and your frenemy is trying to develop nuclear bombs…
Teenage activism has been on the rise in recent years, a phenomenon that has quite possibly been spurred on by the increasing level of access juveniles have to resources, both scholarly and journalistic. In fact, studies indicate that as many as 88% of U.S. teens aged 13-17 have access to a cellular device. Perhaps this…