Like our government, University administration uses police presence and legal repercussions as a fear tactic against protesting, but we should not and cannot let them scare us into advocating for change.

We have to be willing to talk about “messy” subjects so we can move on to major questions of equity in our society.

Creating high-rise luxury apartments in the areas of the city that already experience extreme wealth inequality does nothing but further the lack of access to housing in the city.

If we truly want to enact change and promote social justice, we must learn to listen to one another with respect and understanding.

Beginning this semester, the newly formed Washington University Naming Review Board (NRB) will begin receiving reports on names that might “conflict with University values” for buildings, programs, and monuments.

What started as a seemingly harmless term of women’s empowerment in the field of business has turned into a phrase facetiously used to describe a woman doing literally anything in the name of femininity.

I realized after days of being taunted by a blank screen, that I can’t. I cannot explain to a non-Black person what it means to wear this skin each day, this skin that—despite who wears it—will always be marked and measured by the scars placed upon it by American hands, scars that I inherited from a past I did not know.

Newly formed student group Interrogating Incarceration is joining forces with city-wide efforts to shut down the Workhouse, a medium-security penitentiary in St. Louis, for its inhumane conditions and its disproportionate number of Black inmates.

While many Washington University students may be interested in getting involved with social justice causes such as mass incarceration and education, it is often unclear how to get one’s foot in the door.

Washington University’s policy ignores black and brown students fighting against unjust systems who failed in the past and even the present to receive institutional protection.