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A Drive-By Shooting in Cleveland
BY RAJA KRISHNA The following is based on security footage and audio evidence released to the public by the Cleveland Police Department. Access the video here. On Saturday, November 22nd, 2014, while the world held its breath in anticipation of the Ferguson grand jury decision, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was kicking at some freshly fallen snow…
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A Cure Withheld
BY RACHEL BUTLER In 2012, US health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers, enough to give a bottle of pills to every adult in the country, and that number is on the rise. Prescription medications now kill more people than cocaine and heroin combined. Illegal opioids like heroin are also cheaper and…
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Chancellor Wrighton’s Fear Mongering
BY GABRIEL RUBIN The fire is coming, or so they tell us. Since August, the administration of Washington University in St. Louis has taken a bifurcated approach to the protest movement that has emerged in the wake of unarmed teenager Michael Brown’s killing. When the protesters were demonstrating mainly in the suburb of Ferguson itself,…
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The Activist Ego Chamber
BY RAJA KRISHNA On a cloudy Friday morning in early May, seven Washington University students were arrested for trying to enter a board of trustees meeting. The “Wash. U. Seven,” as they started calling themselves, say they wanted to deliver a letter to CEO of Peabody Energy Greg Boyce, a member of the board and…
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A Civil Discourse: Wash U Hosts Panel in Response to Michael Brown Shooting
BY BILLIE MANDELBAUM In his 1953 novel, Go Tell It On The Mountain, James Baldwin wrote, “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Rebecca Wanzo, an associate professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, referenced this same quote in her introduction to the university’s August…
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For Whom The Bus Rolls
BY BRIAN BENTON David took the bus to visit his mother and, maybe more important, because he had just found a transfer pass in his back pocket. Claire was going to work, as she had done almost every weekday for most of the past year and a half, except for the few days when her…
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One City, Two Worlds: Why Michael Brown’s Death Was the Final Straw
BY VICTORIA SGARRO Anger over the death of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, at the hands of a local police officer has transformed Ferguson, Missouri from an anonymous Midwestern suburb into the focal point for America’s race relations, all within the span of a week. The incident, along with retaliatory protests-turned-riots, landed the small…
