- By Kiran Butte- One of the reasons why the Ferguson case became notorious was because of the city’s past of alleged racial profiling and inequality within its justice system. According to USA Today, African-Americans make up approximately 67% of Ferguson’s population while only 5.7% of its police force. This lack of diversity in the Ferguson …
- By Abby Weyer- On April 25 this year, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked Nepal, flattening thousands of towns and villages, and killing over 8,000. Three weeks later in early May, the country was hit again with another equally powerful quake while its citizens were still recovering from the devastating effects of the first. To …
-By Priya Shukla- A few weeks ago, Lilla Gabrielli ’16 won the Robin Crawford Award, a first place speaker trophy in the DANEIS league. She worked with Alexandra Belluck ’17 in a debate competition, which consisted of a cross-ex round, a parliamentary extemporaneous speaking round, and two rounds of impromptu speaking. In the cross-ex round, …
Betsy Kim ‘17 placed as a finalist in the 2015 John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Essay Contest. Kim wrote about former Virginia Representative Tom Perriello’s courageous and controversial decision to support the 2010 Affordable Care Act, despite Perriello’s being at odds with most of Virginia’s constituents and later losing his reelection as a result. …
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-by Kiran Butte- The United States was founded on a unique form of government in which power is spread out, so as not to leave one leader too powerful. We have individual state governments and a large federal government divided into multiple sectors, a unique form of government in which power is managed by a …
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