Last Monday, Campus Safety alerted the entire University of La Verne community via a vague email about a lockdown affecting several buildings, students and employees – two hours after the lockdown had ended and the dangerous situation had been resolved.
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This is not a national emergency
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency last Friday in order to obtain his request for $5 billion to fund his plan for a border wall, after receiving only $1.6 billion. Although Trump has stated on several occasions that the issue has become a crisis of national security, there is nothing to show that the […]
No double standards on bigotry
On Feb. 11, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, attracted criticism from President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the entire Democratic leadership for comments that were labeled as anti-Semitism.
We cannot deny climate change
Not too long ago Donald Trump said that he did not believe in climate change, but instead believes in weather.
On diversity, work to do
For years at the University of La Verne there has been evidence of inequality from administration and faculty.
Inmate firefighters save lives
As fires raged across California last month, more than 1,500 inmates traded their prison issue jumpsuits for flame retardant gear and faced unrelenting flames, smoke and ash.
Climate change is real
Our president regularly denies scientific evidence, which shows not only that climate change is happening but also that human beings are the cause, saying that people with high intelligences like himself do not see the evidence.
Administration dehumanizes migrants
A sense of humanity and empathy for immigrants has been replaced in the Trump era with a rhetoric demeaning and characterizing each immigrant as a criminal.
United States needs Green New Deal
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a newly-elected Democratic representative for Congress from New York, is leading the campaign for a comprehensive carbon reduction and jobs program called the “Green New Deal.”
Microaggressions are real
Microaggressions have been widely discussed across campus during the past several weeks and months.