The Taylor family cannot profit off of this administration’s ruthless anti-immigration agenda while simultaneously supporting young scholars from immigrant families.

As the executive board of WashU Democrats, we believe that Americans must be attuned to their lived experiences and work to improve our union through collective action, especially in the St. Louis community.

Desensitization stems from abundance. The information age has flooded us with never-ending waves of headlines, news, opinions, and more, to the point where this overexposure fosters indifference. At WashU, this means that the threat of violence on our campus didn’t end up feeling major or surprising in its aftermath.

Bili spoke at an event that explored the connection between the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen on Thursday, Feb. 26.

WashU, as an institution, has traded public-facing politics for career outcomes, encouraging students to do the same as individuals. When a university defines the primary purpose of education as professional preparation, civic engagement becomes a risk and is disregarded rather than made an educational responsibility.

As college students, the mundane life of classes may make our daily actions feel meaningless against the backdrop of national unrest. Yet, we each have the ability and obligation to stay informed about ICE’s impact on our community and oppose their presence and actions.

We must remain vigilant against the tirade of misinformation brought on by our current administration, using our own eyes and ears to discern facts from convenient distortions of the truth.

one of this is accidental. This is a highly intentional process creating a barrage of information for which you are the target.

But one doesn’t need to subscribe to any of these views to oppose the bill. Simple American grade-school civics are sufficient.

The fall semester goes to show that while students, faculty, and staff are not the arbiters of WashU actions or policy, our opinions on them carry weight.