Rupi Kaur’s TED Talk last month, “I’m Taking My Body Back,” brought up an interesting discussion about what the body means. Within the TED Talk, Kaur performed a spoken word poem using “home”...
The scene plays out the same way in most classes.
It starts with a chorus of moans across the room as the professor sends their assistants out in a flurry of papers. The first wave of students bolts...
After three presidential debates and seemingly never ending coverage, November has finally arrived. The political cycle has spun us out and exhausted most of us. Out of the typhoon, we’ve been given...
We are writing today to call for an end to the Undergraduate Diversity Collaborative (UDC). Since their inception, UDC has been a constructive effort to marginalize and undermine the advancement of minority...
It’s high time that Case Western Reserve University thinks seriously about instituting a comprehensive, academically rigorous Cleveland Studies program. Much like University of Chicago’s Chicago Studies...
Despite the progress we have made as a country in terms of race relations, we still have sports teams named after racial groups, such as Cleveland’s baseball team, the Cleveland Indians.
The Cleveland...
New architecture without 90 degree angles, atriums connecting class halls, old buildings under renovations, trees on the quad transforming into their fall form and some massive construction project on...
On Oct. 14, the Observer filled its front page with an article about a public conversation held almost two years ago on the CWRU campus between Dan Moulthrop, CEO of Cleveland City Club, and Stephen...
College campuses have found themselves in a state of hypervisibility lately, mostly due to what some consider to be “political correctness.” Everything that happens on campus is watched, carefully,...
Most of our world revolves around our adult lives. When we’re born, most of our parents look at us and wonder what we’ll study, what schools we’ll go to and who we’ll marry. People often feel that...
