May 10th, 2011
Written by Janice S. Ellis Ph.D. in National Collegiate Dialogue with 20 Comments
Osama Bin Laden is dead. But we cannot let our guard down. Members of Al Qaeda, the terrorist organization he lead for nearly two decades, vows to avenge his death with additional terrorist attacks against the United States.Therefore, Americans, while feeling some sense of relief, remain watchful.That was very evident a few days ago, when a Delta Airline pilot refused to fly with two Muslim...
May 2nd, 2011
Written by Talia Page in National Collegiate Dialogue with 11 Comments
Just one year ago, members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), held an off-campus “Compton Cookout,” where guests were beckoned to don gold teeth, wear baggy sports gear, and enjoy watermelon in honor of Black History Month. It was followed by a campus television broadcast of the editor of Koala, a campus publication, denouncing black students as “...
April 25th, 2011
Written by Wendy Innes in National Collegiate Dialogue with 8 Comments
Just a generation ago, racism and segregation was a way of life for minorities all across the U.S. at colleges big and small. As time slowly marched on, it seems to the uninterested observer that these scourges on society have all but disappeared, but nothing could be farther from the truth.Racism and segregation are alive and well on college campuses, but they merely take a more 21st Century...
April 25th, 2011
Written by Jodie Blankenship in National Collegiate Dialogue with 28 Comments
College and university rhetoric is devised to supply students with a language to discuss difficult topics at a higher education level. One concept introduced early in many college educations is authority. Students learn to intensely evaluate articles, books, fiction, and other publications to assess the reliability of that source and whether that source is an authority on a subject.The idea of...
April 18th, 2011
Written by Amy OLoughlin in National Collegiate Dialogue with 10 Comments
In January, The New York Times published “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above,” a provocative and widely circulated article about college students of mixed racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as the rise in population of a multiracial America.As the article states, since 2000, when the U.S. Census Bureau allowed Americans to identify themselves in more than one...
