Tag / Chancellor Wrighton
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Flat Chancellor’s Tour of Saline County, IL
[su_dropcap style=”flat”]I[/su_dropcap]n the Spring of 2014 Students Against Peabody staged protests at Washington University in St. Louis to shed light on the current ties between Wash U and Peabody Energy, a company that exploits communities in Rocky Branch, Illinois; Black Mesa, Arizona; and St. Louis to just name a few. One of many ties between…
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Why Wash. U. Students Walked Out of a Meeting with Their Chancellor
BY JULIA HO, EMILY ALVES, MEGAN ODENTHAL, JAMAL SADRUD-DIN, AND GEORGIA MCCANDLISH At 11am on Saturday morning, 5 student representatives from the sit-in against Peabody entered a conference room in Brookings Hall to meet with Chancellor Wrighton. Forty-five minutes later, we emerged from the meeting with an increased sense of resolve and passion to a…
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Unsettling the Seated
Student advocacy is a marvelous thing. Some of the most formative moments in American history have come from student protests, sit-ins, and demonstrations. These displays of passionate idealism are often inspiring, especially when their sights are pragmatically set on local or campus targets. The current Wash U student sit-in against Peabody Energy and its CEO…
