Archives - Sam Passanisi
Race
Panel aims to fight racism in all forms
The two-hour event was led by Dean for Diversity Beth Olivares and Academic Program Coordinator for the Office of Minority Student Affairs Sasha Eloi, alongside five students who shared their experiences of race relations and discrimination at the University. Read More
News
Science faculty stages teach-in
Students and faculty have made efforts to respond to the cuts to science funding discussed by the Trump administration. Read More
Culture
‘90s Music laser show proves otherworldly experience
The snow falls in flurries—except at occasional intervals, when it’s checked by a vibrant burst of lasers. Read More
DLH
DLH event offers lesson in protesters’ rights
The evening would address the topic of black activism in a broad sense, with a focus on the legal rights of protesters and other activists. Read More
Senate Summary
Senate Summary: 2/13/17
Speaker of the Senate Lindsay Wrobel met with senior Stephen Wegman over the past week, and an ultimatum was issued. Read More
Race
Ringing the bell on racism
His one-man show, “The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour,” played to nearly nonstop laughs in the crowded Douglass Ballroom on Friday evening. Read More
Race
Film showing pushes racial questions
The audience, inspired after the film they had just watched, gave their opinion—people should speak up, and they have to take a stand against racism. Read More
2016 Election
UR students rock the vote
For nearly all of them, it was their first time voting in a presidential election. Some had come by car, some by University shuttle. Others had walked to the Saunders Research Building, the polling place for students who are registered to vote at their River Campus address. As voting locations go, it wasn't crowded—though without […]
Campus
Burgett Center talk tackles PC culture
The discussion turned to the danger of putting people into boxes—a box of LGBT individuals, perhaps, or a basket of Trump supporters. Read More
Trump
How to beat Trump
America's liberals and Democrats have succeeded in laughing themselves to the brink of Armageddon. Read More
