Letters to the Editor: Phi Delt’s Offensive Costumes Return
November 30, 2016
Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion, Top Stories
Greetings CWRU Community, I am writing to discuss a recent act of racial arrogance on our campus and the Case Western Reserve University administration's unwillingness to address it. As most of you know, last semester (April 2016) the Phi Delta Theta fraternity (Phi Delt) performed a skit where they dressed up,...
Letter to the Editor: In response to “Locker Room Banter”
November 18, 2016
Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion
This is a response to an Oct. 14 submission by Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer, professor of Ethics at Case Western Reserve University. It is unfortunate that the professor experienced ridicule and even abuse for things such as a hyphenated last name and for having a progressive-looking father. Curiously, he attribute...
Letter to the Editor: UDC responds to “An End to the Undergraduate Diversity Collaborative”
November 11, 2016
Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion
We are compelled to write today in response to a letter calling for the end of the Undergraduate Diversity Collaborative (UDC). Thank you to the authors of this letter for beginning this conversation in such a public forum. UDC is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion, and the idea tha...
Letter to the Editor: In response to “An End to the Undergraduate Diversity Collaborative”
November 11, 2016
Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion
In the letter to the editor published last week, Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Representatives Edward Bennett for the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing and Maleeka Aljawad for the College of Arts and Sciences attacked the Undergraduate Diversity Collaborative (UDC) for presumably failing to...
Letter to the Editor: Radical Student Union releases statement on the Presidential Election
November 11, 2016
Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion
Today, we wake up to the news that the Republican candidate for president, Donald Trump, has won the election. The President-elect has invigorated racism in this country against immigrants and followers of Islam, both citizens and refugees, and has amplified the latent nativist and xenophobic current...
Letter to the Editor: Islamophobia and antisemitism
November 11, 2016
Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion
I applaud The Observer for its critical coverage of Stephen Hoffman’s offensive comments about Muslims in the wake of the January 2015 attacks in Paris. Questioning powerful individuals is a cornerstone of journalism and an important aspect of a liberal arts education. Hoffman is president of the Jew...
Letter to the Editor: Support for UDC
November 11, 2016
Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion
The purpose of the University Media Board (UMB) on this campus is to not only support student media, but to also advance and protect student expression. The University Diversity Collaborative (UDC) is an organization whose members constantly seek to express their identities and encourage others to do so a...
Letter to the Editor: An End to the Undergraduate Diversity Collaborative
November 4, 2016
Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion
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 groups on campus. Without any power to write legislation and without the same influence as the U...
Letter to the Editor: Hoffman’s “Islamophobia”
October 28, 2016
Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion
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 Hoffman, President of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland. The headline criticized Hoffman for "sp...
Letter to the Editor: Radical Student Union Addresses Controversy
October 28, 2016
Filed under Letters to the Editor, Opinion
On Sept. 21, the Case Western Reserve University’s Radical Student Union (RSU) hosted a public screening of the documentary “The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States,” a film that is available from Kelvin Smith Library for free to all CWRU students a...