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There’s a certain amount of intolerance, especially in junior high. We often see things we don’t understand that cause reactions, so yes I was—a little...
...Like classrooms, student groups and clubs provide an essential venue through which students can explore new subjects, develop existing interests, and engage with their fellow students. Such exposure breeds a community of tolerance and understanding—a lesson fundamental to the educational mission of any school. While we understand the Utah legislature’s desire to give schools the authority to “make decisions to protect the physical, emotional, psychological, or moral well being of students,” this heavy-handed regulation stifles the very educational benefits that student groups serve to provide?...
...launch into a monologue about the current state of football and education, but this episode illustrates the perils of Facebook. The team members who thought of the Facebook group have apologized and now claim that it was a misunderstood joke. While I don’t think these guys understand the meaning of “joke” (I’m sure my future significant other could offer legitimate forms of jokes from “Seinfeld”), their one moment lapse of judgment has now been memorialized by the global spatiality of Facebook. In short, it?...
...national pro-life and pro-choice movements do not speak languages their target audiences understand, resulting in caricatured and destructive images of each side. The annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. and the tagline frequently found on the back of ALL T-shirts illustrate this communication lapse: “You will not silence my message / You will not mock my God / You will stop killing my generation...
...trying to ‘reframe’ their message to make people think they believe abortion is wrong.” But who considers abortion “right?” Perhaps tiresome debate is ending and a consensus is being built. Perhaps we are beginning to understand each other...