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Damn Daniel
I wasn't shocked at Daniel Banta's winning the award for journalism in the moving up day ceremony. In fact, I expected it because this school prides itself on freedom of speech practices and Daniel used it to its utmost potential…
Explanation Over “The Oppression™ Olympics”
Given the nature of some of the responses I received over my article "The Oppression™ Olympics," it is clear that I failed to effectively communicate my point. To those who interpreted my article as laughing at the experience of…
On The Oppression Olympics
Last Wednesday, Dr. Steve Gimbel, professor of philosophy at Gettysburg College, gave a philosophy lecture on humor ethics at St. Lawrence University. During this lecture, one of the things Gimbel posited was that we put ourselves at a…
A Response To The Oppression Olympics
St. Lawrence University has a long history of commitment to diversity. Our Universalist founders were committed to gender equality during a time when male dominance was a societal norm that went virtually unchallenged. In the years since,…
Letter to the Editor: Response to “The Oppression Olympics”
By Lydia Kenney
Last week, Daniel Banta ’18 published an article in The Hill News titled “Tune in For This Year’s Oppression™ Olympics.” I cannot begin to express to you all how deeply disgusted and angered I am by the…
Facebook: To Be Or Not To Be Regulated
Historically, large, unregulated corporations have had detrimental effects on the general public. Because of this, laws such as the antitrust laws, which originated with the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, have been put in place with the…
ODK’s New Tapping Announcements Limit Embarrassment
Unless you live under a rock or don’t go to class, you’ve probably seen people walking into class, calling people up, and announcing what ODK does, saying, “congratulations x, you’ve made it in!” They announce when the tapping is and then…
A Response to “The Oppression Olympics”
My biggest problem with the satirical piece editor-in-chief Daniel Banta published last week is his definition of intersectionality.
To some, intersectionality may be the act of looking past similarities to focus on differences, as his…