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13th

Last Friday, the Business Students of Color hosted a viewing of 13th, a documentary by Ava DuVernay. The film is titled in reference to the 13th amendment to the constitution, which states that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime” is permitted in the United States. DuVernay argues, alongside many experts…

Double Trouble

Hillary Clinton’s and Michelle Obama’s campaign event held at the coliseum was very historic and admirable in several ways and it was their first joint appearance on the campaign trail. The audience screamed as the two women walked onstage, and you notice how small Hillary Clinton is compared to Michelle. The two significant figures talked…

The Dangerous Arizona Border

Kraig Beyerlein, a sociologist at Notre Dam, came to speak about his findings on social justice in the desert and faith-based mobilizing to save lives. His studies focused on the Arizona border, a border that is lethal and unauthorized. Undocumented migrants funneled to the Arizona border. This part of the border is highly dangerous because…

Immigration: the false polemic ?

Immigration has been one of the more dividing issue of the presidential campaign, with complete opposite view on that subject between the two candidates. Logically this absence of consensus should reappears at the lower level of both parties structure. Yet the debate at the Benson center between A Nowrasteh and P Volgin proves that it…

Please, please, please vote.

The Hillary Clinton rally was an experience I’ll remember for my lifetime. Seeing both Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama that close was incredible. The pump-up music playing before Clinton came on stage added an element of (in my opinion) humor, and created an atmosphere of liveliness and excitement. In general, the crowd was very lively…

Why Argue Against the Facts?

Immigration is good for the economy. Both Philip E. Wolgin and Alex Nowrasteh came to an agreement on that point. In fact, Wolgin pointed out that economic growth, innovation, and entrepreneurship are all positive economic effects of immigration. Furthermore, both Wolgin and Nowrasteh argued that immigrants were more complimentary workers to that of the average…

The Debate that Shouldn’t Be a Debate

Immigration is a unique issue in American politics today, in that it garners some of the most dramatic emotional reactions from politicians and voters alike. It differs from other divisive issues, however, in that the accepted academic view of immigration is not at all divisive. Liberal Philip Wolgin from the Center of American Progress and…

Just Wait in Line!

The immigration politics panel consisted of two speakers, Philip Wolgin and Alex Nowrasteh. Wolgin is the managing director for the immigration policy team at the Center for American Progress and Nowrasteh is the immigration policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity. These two speakers talked about immigration myths, border enforcement,…

How to Excite your Partisan Party

In Perrin’s American Democracy, he discusses how social attachments hold more weight in one’s voter behavior than voter influences (gender, education, age, race). We saw how this was true at the Hillary Clinton rally, where people cheered for anything that she said, even though no political issues were addressed. This shows that Secretary Clinton knows…

Paralyzing Panics

The WFU Law School Review hosted a symposium covering human trafficking last week, and one of the many seminars focused their discussion of human trafficking as a moral panic. There seemed to be several approaches to her discussion that explored the paralyzing panic that often accompanies human trafficking. Each year, there is a new report…