On November 16 Alejandro Heredia ‘16, a Dickinson alumnus who graduated with an English major and Creative Writing minor, joined us from New York City over Zoom to give a virtual reading of his work, including his collection of short stories, You’re the Only Friend I Need. This event was cosponsored by Creative Writing; Latin…
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…
On November 9 at 7 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, Varshini Prakash offered a lecture called “Stopping the Climate Crisis: The Time to Act is Now.” Prakash is the executive director and co-founder of the Sunrise Movement, “a grassroots organization of young people working to stop climate change and create good-paying jobs in…