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Volume CI Issue 24
March 16, 2016
6HOPD OHDYHV VWXGHQWV GLVFRXUDJHG BY HENRY EDEN Staff Writer Xavier’s alternative break (AB) trip to Selma, Ala., was planned with the goal of allowing students to examine many different kinds of privilege in their own lives. Students’ UHĂ HFWLRQ RQ HYHU\WKLQJ IURP JHQGHU SULYLOHJH WR UDFLDO SULYLOHJH ZDV VXSSRVHG WR EH D FRUQHUVWRQH LQ helping students to understand KRZ SULYLOHJH DIIHFWV WKHLU OLYHV EDFN home. What they found during their WLPH LQ WKH FLW\ IDPRXV IRU WKH YRWing rights movement in 1965 lent a whole new meaning to the word. ;8$% 6HOPD VWXGHQW SDUWLFLpants Aubrey Bourgeois, Garrison Mays, Jeremiah Pennebaker, 0DGLVRQ 6WHHOH DQG 0LFKDHO 0F*UDWK DOO IRXQG WKH HQYLURQment in Selma to be unlike anything they had seen before. ´%DVLFDOO\ \RX VWLOO KDYH DOPRVW SHUFHQW VHJUHJDWLRQÂľ %RXUJHRLV said. “Right now the population is 20 SHUFHQW ZKLWH DQG SHUFHQW EODFN DQG WKHUH¡V QRW UHDOO\ PXFK LQWHJUDWLRQ RFFXUULQJ EHWZHHQ WKRVH WZR FRPPXQLWLHV Âľ 0F*UDWK DGGHG “And unfortunately there is not a lot of integration going on between WKRVH WZR FRPPXQLWLHV DQG WKLV means there are a lot of groups
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Students travelled to Selma, Ala., on an AB trip. Some said their partner organization’s approach proved troubling.
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Departments clash over parking BY EMILY LINGENFELTER Staff Writer
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DIFT students want to park in Brockman Circle to unload their large cameras and other heavy equipment.
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