Tag: affirmative action

MASON REACTS TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BAN

Recent Supreme Court decision to ban Affirmative Action sparks discussion about Equity in College Admissions. BY VIVIANA SMITH, NEWS EDITOR Historic decisions have recently been made by the U.S. Supreme Court. From the Overturning of Roe v. Wade to the…

THE NEW REALITY OF A POST-AFFIRMATIVE ACTION WORLD

SCOTUS rolls back on Affirmative Action. What’s next? BY ADITI GOEL, STAFF WRITER It doesn’t matter if you’ve been reading the news or not, the latest U.S. Supreme Court decision is an important one to understand. On June 29, the…

I FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

Navigating college applications as a Guyanese Indo-Caribbean student. BY ERICA MUNISAR, NEWS EDITOR As students apply to college, one of the most popular application mediums, Common App, offers the following race categories for students to select and identify with: ‘American…

OPINION: Good Old College Try

By Emily Bartenfelder, Contributor Give something the good old college try. At first this may sound like a blanket statement, but to many people this has a different meaning. No matter who you are, the person next to you will…