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Portland & Chicago React to National Guard Presence

Brooke Clark, News Reporter • October 17, 2025

UPDATE – Oct. 23, 2025. 4:35 p.m. – Quote attributed to Professor Bost changed from "...Order and rhetoric..." to "...Law and order rhetoric...". President Trump announced plans to deploy troops...

The Problems with Prescriptivism

Nikolaus Kennelly, Columnist • April 20, 2017

How many voices do you have? Assuming you’re a student, you’ve probably got the budding scholar’s voice, the one with terms like “isomorphic” and “contingent” strung together into highly...

“Chi-Raq”: An Amusing Look at a Serious Topic

Eric Anderson, Staff Writer • February 25, 2016

For a film that begins by presenting a damning social statistic-more Americans have been killed in Chicago in the last decade than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined-Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" is curiously, but not pointlessly, lighthearted.

Lives of Black Youth Are Disposable in America

Gladys Gitau • February 27, 2013

In light of recent mass shootings, it seems as if America is really adamant on preventing the slaughter of innocent lives. However, hundreds of black shooting deaths continue to go unreported in the mainstream media, suggesting that those black lives are worth less in America.

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