BY SAVANNAH MARTINCIC, STAFF WRITER In the 24 hours between Aug. 3 and Aug. 4, 29 people were killed and 53 were injured by firearm-wielding home-grown terrorists. The Gun Violence Archive (GVA) defines a mass shooting as any incident in…
By Dominic Pino, Columnist On Feb. 14, a gunman opened fire and killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. This we all know. However, there was a lesser known event on Feb. 20 that allows for…
FULTON DISCUSSES THE DEATH OF HER SON – TRAYVON MARTIN, GUN VIOLENCE, AND MENTAL HEALTH By Angelique Arintok, Staff Writer As part of the 2018 Sojourner Truth Lecture, Women and Gender Studies and African and African American Studies came together…
By Jamie Beliveau, Opinions Editor This week marks the eighth school shooting event in the first seven weeks of 2018. Gunshots pepper the first two months of the year, with an average of more than one shooting a week, and…
By Fourth Estate Editorial Board Alyssa Alhadeff Martin Duque Anguiano Nicholas Dworet Jaime Guttenberg Luke Hoyer Cara Loughran Gina Montalto Joaquin Oliver Alaina Petty Meadow Pollack Helena Ramsay Alexander Schachte Carmen Schentrup Peter Wang Christopher Hixon Aaron Feis Scott Beigel…
By Chris Kernan-Schmidt, Columnist The debate on gun control has been revived once again after Wednesday’s horrific school shooting in Parkland, Fla. It seems after every mass shooting our legislators, political commentators, news anchors, and practically everyone I know is…
By Susan Katherine Corkran, Columnist “What do you want to be when you grow up?” has always been an easy question for me to answer, and I am grateful for the surety my dream job provided me. I always knew…