During Thanksgiving week, stickers bearing the image of Adolf Hitler were placed on the Asbell Center for Jewish Life sign. These stickers, as well as stickers bearing heinous white supremacist slogans were also attached to a poster for the “Horace Pippin: Racism & War” exhibit. These two incidents are clearly connected, unfortunately drawing on a…
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Domestic violence is sometimes referred to as intimate partner violence, which is what the CDC calls it. In the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey State Report 2010-2012, CDC researchers find that: In the U.S., 1 in 4 women (27.4%) and 1 in 9 men (11.0%) have experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or…
Love Your Body Week 2017
What is Love Your Body Week? Every spring, Dickinson College dedicates a week to self-love and self-acceptance. Dickinson’s Love Your Body Week is a week packed with events that surround this important topic, bringing positivity to the student body and student bodies in distinct and extraordinary ways each year. This year, Love Your Body Week…