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Making College Great Again: Evangelical Outsiders in the Age of Trump

By Adam Laats

…ngelical colleges wanted to do something different; they hoped to shepherd students’ learning, to guide students thoughtfully and lovingly in evangelical directions. That promise has included more than just religious ideas. Throughout their history, evangelical school leaders have insisted that they would inculcate young people with patriotic, conservative political values as well. At flagship Wheaton College in Illinois, for instance, school pres…

Feminist Critics of Wearing Hijab in Solidarity Fall Into Same Old Traps

By Mariam Durrani

…I had a short chat with one of my research participants, a Muslim college student in New York City. When we first met, “Sarah” (not her real name) did not wear the hijab. She was a prominent member of her college’s Muslim Student Association when she wasn’t hanging out with friends in the city or watching Bollywood movies at home. Sarah decided to wear the hijab earlier this year because, she told me, it changed the way she socialized with others…

Ada Marìa Isasi-Díaz, Mother of Mujerista Theology

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…ymount University I invited Ada to speak to a group of faculty, staff, and students. The students were primarily Latino/as who had read her work through one of my courses. Before she began her presentation she asked me to introduce her to all of my students and went to personally shake their hands. They were overwhelmed that in a room full of faculty and University administration she had chosen to greet them. This gesture embodies Ada as a person…

Hey Michele Bachmann,
I Got Your Nobel Laureates Right Here

By Lauri Lebo

…ters on tea party web sites started making threats of violence against the student for having the audacity to question Bachmann. The 16-year-old Myers says that some commenters have called her “a whore.” Bachmann has not responded to the challenge, nor has she issued a statement condemning the threats. This week, 17-year-old Baton Rouge high school student Zack Kopplin called on Bachmann to back up her statement from 2006 in which she said lots of…

Jewish Studies Is a Free-Speech Zone, and It Needs to Stay That Way

By Aaron Hughes

…aningful. Unlike at other universities I have taught at, many of my Jewish students do not simply celebrate their identity, but interrogate it. Many students have told me that what they want more than anything is a “safe space” on campus to discuss the problems in the Middle East. When I was asked to join the Hillel Executive I accepted, even if hesitantly, because I thought I might bring a more liberal voice. When I was told that the “price” to b…

Georgetown U. President Calls Limbaugh “Misogynistic, Vitriolic”

By Sarah Posner

…has written a letter to the university community: In recent days, a law student of Georgetown, Sandra Fluke, offered her testimony regarding the proposed regulations by the Department of Health and Human Services before a group of members of Congress. She was respectful, sincere, and spoke with conviction. She provided a model of civil discourse. This expression of conscience was in the tradition of the deepest values we share as a people. …

Cut the Ten Commandments Down to Six?

By Sarah Posner

…High School, sued to remove the Ten Commandments because it “makes me [the student] feel like an outsider because the school is promoting religious beliefs that I do not share.” Judge Urbanski had to grant the plaintiffs a protective order “to shield them from harassment by people in the community who have pressed for the Ten Commandments display and showed anger toward those who disagreed with them,” according to the Associated Press. The Bluefi…

Atheists Battle for High School Clubs

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…a “bad career move.” But this opposition has only steeled the will of many students, including 18-year-old Brian Lisco, a senior at Stephen Austin High School in the Houston suburbs. The school offered a compromise—call it a Philosophy Club and drop any affiliation with the Secular Student Alliance. He refused. “We atheists are already invisible—we don’t come out. That’s a form of repression in itself. It’s about getting pushed to the margin of ou…

Establishment Clause, Meet Free Exercise

By Lauri Lebo

…class; teachers assigning religiously oriented school work and encouraging students to attend religious student clubs; a teacher preaching to students before school in the parking lot with the use of a bullhorn; and teachers inviting students to lead prayers before or during sporting events and other school activities. A consent decree was eventually reached between the district and plaintiffs in which the district and school officials were “perma…

Pamela Geller in Brooklyn: Free Speech, Hate Speech, and the Futility of Arguing with a Bigot

By Haroon Moghul

…diabetes, or overdo it with Splenda, and get cancer? 6:42 Back outside the student center, there’s a crowd of doused and disappointed undergraduates, largely Arab, Muslim or sympathetic, who’ve been refused entrance by security. Many, but not all of them, are with Students for Justice in Palestine. I, however, point to my name on a soaked printout, and am quickly let through. After a cursory check of my bag—I’m reading Åsne Seierstad’s brilliant O…