Nicholas

This is the first in what I hope is a continuing series investigating language’s subtle role in oppression and working to move away from that.

Popular American culture is continually lowering the bar for communication in favor of being able to colloquially describe our daily lives by stringing together meaningless combinations of expletives and nonsense such as, “Damn, that shit was dope.”

Nearly 150 students packed the auditorium where the Evergreen Board of Trustees would be deciding whether to raise the already exorbitant price of summer tuition. Students held the floor for almost an hour and a half on Mar. 9 as they explained, debated, screamed, cried, demanded, and even pleaded with the board to seek other options and to not raise tuition.