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Rethink the Founding Fathers.
Andrew Lee
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Interpreting the Founding Fathers’ wishes is a staple of American political discourse. Constitutional originalism is more of a conservative thing, but really, Founding Father mindreading cuts across the ideological spectrum. The Founding Fathers would have hated partisanship (History) or Trump (Foreign Policy) or gun control (History) or not having gun control (HuffPost). Obama informed us, helpfully, that the Founding Fathers didn’t want presidents to serve three year terms (ABC). The Atlantic told us the Founders would have been especially disgusted by Trump’s pardon of the former owner of the San Francisco 49ers (The Atlantic).

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History
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Understand the TikTok strike.

Understand the TikTok strike.
Nicole Cardoza
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Black social media creators are on strike from creating new choreography. Here’s why.

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Media & Culture Technology
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Unpacking the Term Hispanic and the Homogenizing of Diasporas
Slightly discolored, vintage-looking maps in blue and reddish-beige are scattered across a table.

Unpacking the Term Hispanic and the Homogenizing of Diasporas
Team ARD
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Hispanic and Latino have been used to describe people with roots in Spain or Latin America, but the terms blur multiple diasporas’ experiences and identities.

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Jumko Ogata-Aguilar Media & Culture
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Support immigrant vendors.

Support immigrant vendors.
Andrew Lee
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This San José flea market is threatened by the construction of a “transit village” around a new light-rail station.

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Neighborhoods
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Compensate student-athletes.
Nia Norris
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Last Monday, the Supreme Court made a decision that could significantly impact the lives of student-athletes. The Court ruled against the National College Athletic Association to allow student-athletes to receive education-related payments of up to $6,000 a year and unlimited non-cash education-related benefits (CNN). College sports bring in billions of dollars of revenue each year. The 2019 March Madness tournament was estimated to have brought $1.18 billion in advertising revenue for CBS and Turner Sports, with networks paying about $800 million for the rights (CNBC). Given the profitability of college athletics, it would be expected that athletes receive fair compensation for the labor that they perform.

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Education
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End the “lunchbox moment”.
Andrew Lee
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The fun of this segment is based on disgust: we see our famous celebrities shriek, gag, and embarrass themselves confronted with revolting foods. Some of the items featured were clearly specially created to evoke just such revulsion: hot dog juice, hot sauce and olive jello, the aforementioned ant pickle.

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Media & Culture
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The racial history of IQ testing.
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The racial history of IQ testing.
Andrew Lee
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Intelligence testing is rooted in racial bias and pseudoscience, which affects how Black football players were tested for brain injuries.

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Education
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Rally for Afro-Latino representation.
Team ARD
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The Dominican Republic and Haiti share an island in the Caribbean, and there are many racial, ethnic, and cultural similarities between the two nations. Though most Dominicans in the DR identify as mixed-race, the overwhelming majority of Dominicans, like Haitians, are Black by American racial standards (Black Excellence). About half of the population of the gentrifying neighborhood of Washington Heights, Manhattan, where In the Heights is set, is Dominican (U.S. Census Bureau). Washington Heights comprises one of the largest immigrant communities from the Dominican Republic within the U.S. (Furman Center). Unfortunately, In the Heights wildly misrepresents the Dominicans living in this culturally significant neighborhood, continuing a trend where Afro-Latinos are ignored on screen.

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Media & Culture Michelle Swinea
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Learn the cost of college remediation.
Nia Norris
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Less than a quarter of community college students who take remedial courses go on to complete college-level courses. At four-year colleges, just over a third of students assigned to remediation continue to take college-level courses. The majority of students assigned to remediation at two-year colleges or universities will not graduate within three years or six years, respectively (Complete College America). Students who take remedial courses pay just as much for these courses as students who begin with college-level courses and are often left with student loan debt for coursework that did not lead to a degree.

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Education
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Avoid spiritual bypassing.
Team ARD
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​Spiritual bypassing is to sidestep dealing with pain, strong feelings, trauma, etc. It can be helpful when we are not ready to confront difficult emotions in our lives. However, it is commonly used to avoid acknowledging privilege because doing so is inherently messy, painful, and requires continued awareness.

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Health Melissa Shah
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