Now that Thanksgiving has passed, it's officially the holiday season. With the constant bombardment of themed commercials, the annual return of Michael Buble, and the beginning of the countdown until the end of the semester, we like to think we are in the most wonderful time of the year. However, for Miami and its students, is that statement really true?
Following the election of President Trump, the political expression of those that dissent has become more vocal. There has been an invigoration of the progressive cause that has led to the so called "resistance"
All eyes seemed to be on Virginia during the general election the other week. The media celebrated Democrat Ralph Northam's upset over Republican Ed Gillespie in the gubernatorial race. Headlines about the defeat flooded news sites and social media as people rallied behind Northam and called his success proof of both a Democratic resurgence and the power of voter participation.
The editorial staff of The Miami Student has removed the letter to the editor, "Liberalism in the Classroom More Dangerous than Conservatism" from our website, and we wish to apologize for its publication and our failure to research the author's affiliation with a hate group.
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Student protests have erupted across the breadth and scope of academia over the past several years. These protests have disrupted colleges and universities from Harvard to Yale, from the University of Wisconsin to California State. These protests, orchestrated by students, reflect the full range of groups from athletes to graduate students, from conservatives to progressives, and from students of color to feminists. Students are taking a knee and raising the flag, shouting from the streets and within classrooms. The issues have ranged from gun rights to freedom of speech, from hate speech to protected speech, from national to international politics, from ecology to community, and yes, from DACA to health care, crime and punishment and racial profiling.
We want to thank everyone who participated in the Black State of the Union last Tuesday. It was an important event for many reasons. Mainly, we need more opportunities to speak directly with the administration. We need the administration to be more transparent with the students.
The following reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.
Letter to the editor:
Letter to the editor
It was the first truly chilly day we'd had in Oxford, and I was taking my favorite winter coat on its first outing of the season.
He was "too weird to live, too rare to die," but live he undeniably did, and death even he couldn't escape. Hunter S. Thompson was the drugged-out, sleep-deprived, counter culture icon America needed in its awkward, adolescent and spirited young adult phase. He's most widely remembered today for his intense originality, unyielding weirdness and humongous appetite for mind-altering substances. But what is so often lost in our retrospective gaze is just how damn fine a writer the man truly was.
Darcy Keenan, Columnist
Devon Shuman, Managing editor
The following reflects the majority opinion of the editorial board.
Luke Schroeder, columnist
Joey Hart, opinion editor
Charles Kennick, guest columnist