CWRU students assemble to demand climate action
Yvonne Pan, A&E Editor
January 17, 2020
Coinciding with Jane Fonda’s New York Times opinion piece “We Have to Live Like We’re in a Climate Emergency. Because We Are.,” published on Dec. 5, 2019, was the Sunrise Movement’s Dec. 6 climate strike, occurring in four cities in Ohio alone, as well as in Sweden and South Africa. Abo...
CWRU students travel to Israel and Palestine over winter break
Anna Giubileo, Staff Reporter
January 17, 2020
Over winter break, a delegation of students visited Israel to learn more about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict directly from those who are most affected by it. The program, Fact Finders, was hosted by Cleveland Hillel. According to their promotional materials, the trip is “an educational and eye-...
Greek Life struggles to reach a new generation of college students
Veronica Madell, Staff Reporter
January 17, 2020
On Saturday, Jan. 18, around three hundred Case Western Reserve University students will wait for the doors to each of CWRU’s sorority’s room to open so they can be ushered into Greek life. With 36 percent of female students on campus participating in Greek life, the next two weekends of formal rec...
Tibetan monks come to CWRU
Surita Basu, Staff Reporter
December 6, 2019
The Mystical Arts of Tibet tour featuring the Tibetan Buddhist monks of Drepung Loseling Monastery visited Case Western Reserve University from Monday, Nov. 18 through Friday, Nov. 22. The tour is designed to emulate spiritual festivals celebrated by monasteries in Tibet, where people from surrounding v...
Case Amateur Radio Club partners with Department of Civil Engineering to prepare for disaster
Chris Heermann, Photo Editor
December 6, 2019
Every June, the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) sponsors Field Day, a nationwide amateur radio event that simulates a disaster event where electronic communications are disabled. In this scenario, nearly every service we use in our daily life is affected. Hundreds of thousands of texts and calls fa...
LGBT Center works with graduate students to create a more inclusive CWRU
Halle Rose, Staff Reporter
December 6, 2019
AmariYah Israel, assistant director of the LGBT Center at Case Western Reserve University, started her talk by handing out three things: a matching game, a packet of vocabulary words and a cartoon labeled “The Gender Unicorn.” Three dental students, two Master of Public Health candidates and a CWRU Sch...
New Thwing Study Over date creates mixed feelings on campus
Anna Giubileo, Staff Reporter
December 6, 2019
Thwing Study Over (TSO) is the well-loved campus tradition with plenty of free food and giveaways, and contrary to the name, it involves no studying. Rather, it is the perfect destress event during finals, allowing students an excuse to leave their rooms and stop studying for a few hours. Tiger Fan...
CWRU students engage in discussion about domestic abuse
Veronica Madell, Staff Reporter
December 6, 2019
“Why talk about domestic abuse?” Megan Gergen, training specialist at Domestic Violence Child Advocacy Center (DVCAC), asked a room full of 50 college students on Tuesday, Dec. 3, one of the busiest weeks of the academic year. Clearly, the topic was important enough to draw this big of a crowd, bu...
Tom Holland and Russo Brothers come to campus to film movie
Henry Bendon and Anna Giubileo
November 22, 2019
Movie fever spread through campus this week as the Russo Brothers’ production of “Cherry” took over the Case Quad on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the principal filming for the upcoming drama. From the moment the “Whatever College University” signs went up outside Adelbert Hall, avoiding...
Wednesday classes impede Thanksgiving travel plans
Nathan Lesch, Director of Print
November 22, 2019
Most students have bemoaned having classes scheduled for the day before Thanksgiving at least once during their time at Case Western Reserve University. Jensen Turner, a second-year engineering student, is one of the many students impacted by CWRU’s academic schedule. Turner’s home in Everett, Wa...
