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Cheryl Hajjar speaks to members of faculty, Ellen Cowhey, Laura Danforth and wife Paula Chu at the exhibit opening. Formerly incarcerated individuals, such as Hector "Bori" Rodriguez, attended the opening to talk with students and faculty about their artwork.

Elaina Barreto, Lead Opinion Editor

May 7, 2025

Pope Francis greeted local community members every Wednesday during his General Audience in St. Peter’s Square. He will be remembered for his compassionate leadership and efforts to modernize the Catholic Church.
Senator Cory Booker, who made an unsuccessful bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, speaks at a rally in Reno, Nevada, on December 30, 2019. Now a prominent figure in the Democratic Party, Booker recently made history with the longest speech in Senate history. (Trevor Bexon, Licensed from Shutterstock)
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Students, faculty and family devoted time in their schedules to visit the cattle car exhibit that was on campus to teach about the Holocaust.
Cattle car deviates from traditional education style to teach the Holocaust’s history
Ellie Hise, Editor-in-Chief • May 4, 2025

Alex Kritzer sees Trump's tariffs as a return to 17th-century mercantilism. He warns that this shift threatens to unravel the global order that upholds democracy.
Seventeenth Century Blues
Alex Kritzer, Columnist • April 29, 2025

There was a time not so impossibly long ago when the global economy was unrecognizable. Mercantilism, a trade doctrine focused on the zero-sum accumulation of wealth, reigned in world affairs: nations established exclusive imperial spheres of influence with sky-high tariffs and minimized imports from all outsiders with the...

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