Book bans are on the rise. Banning books erases the experience of marginalized communities to center those of non-marginalized students.

Making insensitive comments and isolating people can’t be justified by being “afraid” of catching the virus.

A friend of my roommate’s, Sarah, came up to me and smiled. She said, “I didn’t know you were a Republican. That’s cool, I am too.” Unlike me, wearing a College Republican shirt and holding a McCain-Palin sign, she had nothing political on her. I asked her why she didn’t want to come help make a presence at the show, and she told me that she has two ultra-liberal suitemates who didn’t know she was a conservative.