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I'm an intern reporter with APM Reports based in St. Paul. Previously, I was an intern reporter with the Chronicle of Higher Education, POLITCO California, and an intern fact-checker & copyeditor with FAIR.org.

I'm a thru-hiker, caver, and philosophy-lover. My two favorite songs from television soundtracks are Bear McCreary's "Prelude to War" from Battlestar Galactica, and Labyrinth's "all for us" from Euphoria. 

The Chronicle of Higher Education •

On This Campus, Every Student Could Join a Union. The College Calls It an ‘Existential Threat.’

Student workers at Berea College won’t be the first undergraduates to unionize , but a union at this small Kentucky institution would be a first in other ways.

If successful, it would be the first of its kind in the South, a region that’s historically been anti-union. It would be the first student-worker union at a , where students hold a job in return for free tuition. And it would also be the first undergraduate union to count every student on campus as a member.

Berea is a “historic and imp
The Chronicle of Higher Education •

How Colleges Have Responded to Student Encampments

The number of pro-Palestinian encampments at colleges nationwide continues to climb, reaching more than 80 campuses as of Wednesday. College leaders are grappling with how to balance students’ right to freedom of expression with campus safety concerns, and an uptick in arrests over the past several days has signaled that administrators are struggling to reach peaceful resolutions.

The encampments, inspired by students at Columbia University, where tents first appeared two weeks ago, most common
The Chronicle of Higher Education •

Dozens of Students Arrested at Yale as Administrators Clear Encampment

Yale University police officers on Monday arrested 47 Yale students who were occupying a campus plaza to demand that the university cut ties with weapons manufacturers, including those connected to Israel.

It’s the second time in the past four days that college administrators have shut down an encampment of pro-Palestinian protesters. Last Thursday, Columbia University officials called in the New York City Police Department to arrest more than 100 student protesters who were also demanding that
The Chronicle of Higher Education •

‘First-Generation Students’ Can Be a Limiting Category, New Report Says

Colleges can’t agree on how to define “first generation” students. And maybe that’s OK, according to a team of researchers. But institutions must be aware of even small differences in backgrounds — because a narrow framing of who’s first-gen might cause colleges to miss students who need additional support.

That’s the central takeaway from the latest report in a series from the Common App, which has spent the past five months examining the complicated effects of students’ different parental sit
POLITICO •

The road ahead for reparations

HARD TRUTHS: State Sen. Steven Bradford is one of the more outspoken members of California’s Reparations Task Force. He passionately defends the first-of-its-kind attempt to examine the state’s role in slavery and come up with proposals for reparations. We spoke to Bradford at his office about the work of the task force and the political outlook for its recommendations. A lifelong resident of Southern California, whose district includes historically Black Watts and Inglewood, the senator was realistic — but hardly defeatist about the political road ahead.
Medium •

End College Admissions

You want to end affirmative action? End admissions instead.

There is a pervasive sense, very correct, that college admissions offices are making it up as they go along. “Few people understood the process — even those making the decisions” a former Carnegie Mellon Dean of Admissions admitted to Vox. Students sense that it’s absurd to think that group of strangers could make a competent evaluation on their future. That sense too often devolves to attacks on affirmative action.
Medium •

The Danish Wall And Its Cracks

The Danish Wall And Its Cracks

Denmark has built an impressive barrier for non-Danes to enter the country. International students are the exception — but they face significant obstacles.

Danish citizens go to college for free; they even get a $700 monthly stipend to do it, called “SU”. This still leaves US Americans in awe: “Not only is it free, they actually pay you!” a news anchor exclaims in a promotional clip released by Senator Bernie Sanders. But US audiences miss that this benefit, like
FAIR •

Study of 2020 Debates Finds New Topics but Familiar Framing

A FAIR analysis of the 2020 general election debates found stunning breaks from past practices combined with tried-and-true tropes of national US debates. One of the biggest changes was the coronavirus pandemic, which accounted for 18% of the total of 186 questions asked during two debates between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden (9/29/20, 10/22/20), and the single debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris (10/7/20)...
John Crosby
The Cooper Point Journal •

Rifle Round-Up: Just when you thought it was over

“If they both opt for department-issued rifles, we’ll need to buy one more,” said John Carmichael in an email just before the Journal went to press, almost as an afterthought. He was talking about about two officers at Police Services finishing their training and preparing to be armed with AR-15 rifles. Police Services now has ten officers (if you’re keeping up on the math: that’s up from nine, but we’ll get to that). Seven rifles were purchased, and one officer brings a personal rifle in to work; that leaves two officers without rifles. Why does each officer need their own rifle? Carmichael claims that Evergreen police “can’t share weapons,” because they are only certified to use specific guns.

But rifles were always only one part of a larger story.
The Cooper Point Journal •

Why did 2008 rifle proposal face more resistance? Transparency.

In 2017, President George Bridges quickly and quietly approved the purchase of AR-15 rifles for campus police, leaving the community to grapple with the implications after the fact. This is not the first time Evergreen has confronted the issue of campus police and AR-15 rifles.

Former Director of Police Services Ed Sorger requested rifles in fall of 2008, ushering in a full year of “forums, dialogues, recommendations, and responses from the Evergreen community,” according to a 2009 Cooper Point Journal article by Madeline Berman.
The Cooper Point Journal •

"Profs Not Cops": Community protests planned police hiring

More than a hundred people gathered in front of the library on Wednesday, Nov. 7th to protest Evergreen’s intention to hire two new police officers while cutting faculty positions.

The protestors spent forty minutes chanting and waving homemade signs in Red Square while students and faculty gave impassioned speeches. They then took their message directly to college administration, moving the rally into President George Bridges’ office and presenting a list of demands.
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