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Apr 4, 2019

We Cannot Tolerate Right-Wing Extremism on Our Campus

Just as we should not stereotype Islam as the root cause of Islamic terrorism, we should not mischaracterize all right-wing ideology as the cause of all extremist terror. Instead, we should be critical of segments of any ideology that lead to extremist tendencies. As college students, we must be the most aware of what these ideologies that can manifest into.

Nov 29, 2018

Race-Based Politics are Back in Vogue

Two years after the disastrous 2016 elections, America at-large is still reeling from the effects of that election. The far-right, prejudiced politics have eschewed in a familiar type of politicking across the country. It is the politics of overt racism that we have not quite seen since the 1960s.

Nov 16, 2016

Kenton’s Corner: America, you played yaself

Kenton Gibbs | Staff Writer Well America I don’t have much to say but I would like to talk about who we can and can’t blame for Donald Trump’s election. I want to blame the members of the black community who didn’t vote but I can’t. I want to blame the 23% of Latinx voters…

Nov 16, 2016

Guest Column: Trump wins. Is this Hell in a handbasket?

Dr. Rupert Lacoste | Guest Columnist After the election results showed that Mr. Donald Trump won our presidential election, I started to get emails. One of them said: “Dr. Nacoste, I am reaching out to you because I am confused and overwhelmed by this election. How did we get to this? How have bigotry and…

Nov 2, 2016

Election Round-Up

Dion Figueroa | Correspondent Early voting in the state of North Carolina is coming to a close this weekend, and despite Democrats having an early lead in voter turnout, their numbers have begun to slow as Election Day nears. According to the North Carolina Board of Elections around, 1.5 million North Carolinians have taken advantage…