by Max Mapes | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
Boston’s March for Our Lives The year is 2018. The day: March 24. 50,000-100,000 people are lined up in front of Madison Park High School, Boston, MA. “Youth” are asked to walk in the front, families (and “others”) are asked to walk in...
by Dylan Quinn | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
On a hot June day in Newark, just under twenty individuals huddled around a conference speaker. Unconstructed cubicles, boxes filled with office supplies, and Keurig coffees cups littered the stuffy office space. While the Deputy Campaign Manager fiddled with...
by Wesley Brock | Mar 30, 2018 | University of Memphis
It is likely that everyone reading this will have heard of the Cambridge Analytica incident by this point. For those who have not the quick version of the story is that an app designed for Facebook and used most often in conjunction with those personality test seen on...
by Izzi Bertolozzi | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
On Saturday, March 24th I attended the March for Our Lives in Albany, NY. Since the election in 2016 there seem to be more marches than usual, whether they be for science, women or equality. There was one big difference between those marches and the March for Our...
by Wyeth Taylor | Mar 30, 2018 | Skidmore College
The most central and important part of a healthy democracy is the engagement of its citizens, especially when those in power make decisions contrary to what citizen’s believe is in their best interest. When citizens lose the ability or motivation to make their...
