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By Kat Kaderabek Organizations such as Street Sense Media are working towards ending homelessness in the greater D.C. area through various events and media platforms. Street Sense is a non-profit organization which employs those suffering from homelessness to tell their own stories and experiences through the selling of their newspaper. The organization believes “that while Read More …
By Beth McElhiney Coming to college, I never expected to make such a deep connection. I had no idea the impact that Best Buddies would have on my life. Best Buddies is an organization that fosters friendships between CUA students and those in our community with physical or developmental disabilities. I joined the club during Read More …
Filliben, middle, with classmate Dom Watts, left, and German student Simon Langue, right. By Ryan Filliben When people hear that you’re an American while abroad, and it’ll probably be obvious because our accents are pretty distinct, chances are that they’ll ask you about Trump. That’s the first thing I learned when I came to Galway, Read More …
By Joel Desmarais The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that those with a bachelor’s degree earn about $1,173 a week while those without a bachelor’s degree only earn about $712 per week. Very few dispute the value of higher education, however, with tuition costs rising, it falls to parents and students in order to Read More …
By Hailey Ibberson Catholic University students rolled their car windows down as they made their to Mitchell Park last weekend to promote the Rome School of Music, Art, and Drama’s upcoming production of Legally Blonde. Legally Blonde has been in rehearsal for about four weeks now, but the cast took a small hiatus from their Read More …
By Rachel Stevens It is not a scary time to be a young male in America. It is a terrifying time to be a woman. The men’s rights movement has gained a considerable amount of traction in recent years, and it needs to be stopped. Feminism is the movement for the advocacy of women’s rights Read More …
By Nick Swanson Anti-Kavanaugh protesters’ ugly showing of hate was on full display this past week. At the Capitol over the weekend, protesters yelled “shame” at me and others supporting Kavanaugh. They called female supporters of Kavanaugh the most vile names imaginable. They spit on Kavanaugh supporters. They said things so despicable they should never be Read More …
By Sophie Czerniecki and Elise LaFleur #MeToo is a crucial, important, and empowering movement to raise awareness about sexual assault and to ensure that people, regardless of gender, know that they are not alone. It is a movement that should be taken seriously and not used as an effort to push a political issue from Read More …
By Francisco Flores-Pourrat The Sunday after the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report was published mentioned my own Archbishop Cardinal Wuerl 200 times, is a Sunday I cannot forget even though I try. My parish, St. Raphael in Rockville, Maryland is my parish and is one of the biggest parishes in Maryland. Our church holds around 400 Read More …
By Katarina Ivancik This past June, Jacqueline Leary-Warsaw was appointed as dean of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Drama, Art after a dramatic process of academic renewal in spring 2018. One month into the academic year, Leary-Warsaw is currently overseeing the new and exciting collaborations between the departments. An example is the upcoming Read More …