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November 26th, 2012
Written by Michael Melia - Associated Press in Eyes On The Enterprise, Latest News with 0 Comments
LEDYARD, Conn. (AP) — As benefits of tribal membership go, few compare with the six-figure stipends once enjoyed by the Mashantucket Pequots, who own and operate the giant Foxwoods Resort Casino. Since those payments dried up, more have started taking advantage of another privilege: casino jobs.
The Pequots, a tribe of roughly 900 people in southeastern Connecticut, receive special consideration...
November 26th, 2012
Written by Karen Attiah - Associated Press in Feature Stories, Latest News with 0 Comments
WILLEMSTAD, Curacao (AP) — Headstones are pockmarked, their inscriptions faded. Stone slabs that have covered tombs for centuries are crumbling. White marble has turned grey, likely from the acrid smoke that spews from a nearby oil refinery.
One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the Western Hemisphere, Beth Haim on the island of Curacao, is slowly fading in the Caribbean sun.
Beth Haim was...
November 26th, 2012
Written by Kimberlee McWhirter in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 14 Comments
I cannot change that I’m white, heterosexual, able-bodied, American, middle class, English speaking, educated; I was born with these privileges. I did not ask for them, nor did I earn them, but with them comes a responsibility to recognize that these privileges exist, to educate myself about the system of social inequality, and to work towards social justice and equity.
According to Sociologist...
November 26th, 2012
Written by D. A. Barber in Latest News, National Collegiate Dialogue with 9 Comments
If there was any doubt of a racial component during the past election after the coordinated attempts at targeted voter ID laws to disenfranchise racial minority voters, a number of events following the election have shown that racism seems to run deeper than thought and that a post-racial change in our cultural-political society has a long way to go.
“I wonder how many students sat in their dorm...
November 23rd, 2012
Written by Emily Wagster Pettus - Associated Press in Latest News, Setting It Straight with 0 Comments
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three federal judges say they won't redraw Mississippi's legislative districts or order the state to hold a new round of elections in 2013.
The order came Monday in a lawsuit that the state chapter of the NAACP had filed earlier to challenge state House and Senate redistricting.
Legislative maps have to be updated once a decade to account for population changes, giving more...
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