Racial profiling has gained widespread exposure in the media as well as with everyday Americans. Phoenix reporter Shanna Johnson discusses the problem and the recent court ruling invalidating New York’s ‘stop and frisk’ law.
Archive for the ‘Student Voices’ Category
Gone for the summer!
The “Student Voices” blog section will take a break during the summer. Posts from Loyola students dedicated to living social justice will resume in the fall. Have a great summer!
Love in the Face of Adversity
By Molly O’Brien
2013 Alternative Break Immersion
Jonah House in Baltimore, Maryland
“We will be placing an enormous burden on you. The burden of knowing.” These were the first significant words I remember hearing upon my arrival at Jonah House in Baltimore for my alternative break immersion. I don’t remember who said it first, but each incredible woman…
Do not let the ozone become a doily
By Timothy Rose and Elizabeth Romanski
From the Loyola Phoenix
“I can’t feel my face … or my fingers,” I murmured, barely moving my near-frozen lips. It is halfway through April, but instead of the flowers and warm spring breeze you would expect, we were being pelted by snow…
Social Justice is Alive
By Maddy VanderVeen
School of Social Work ’14
Jumpstart Team Leader
Social Justice is alive.
She is shy. Her intervention is subtle. She guides the words of the educator teaching her young students to talk out their conflicts and embrace their diversity…
Defining Social Justice
By Colleen Kelley
School of Social Work
Undergraduate
After four years of volunteering, exposure to social injustice and countless stories from clients, I would define social justice as opportunity and access. As a social work major, I have been thrown onto the front lines of inequality and injustice and have seen social injustice first hand. Prior to my work on the front lines I had no clue what…
Elements that Embody Me
By Danish Murtaza
Class of 2015
USGA Justice Committee Chair
God. Family. Country. I lead my life around these three elements. I believe these three elements espouse social justice, can be extrapolated to mean social justice. In some areas, I have yet to fully develop, but one day I think I will completely live by these elements. These elements are what have built our great society in the past and I believe if we continue these traditions…
Building a Culture of Justice: The March Against Apathy
by Anthony Betori
Class of 2013
Loyola’s got some work to do.
If you ask the Admissions office what things are like here, I’m sure you would hear much about how green Loyola is, and indeed it is very green. Our urban sustainability initiatives are the envy of universities around the country. But…
Sticks and Stones
By Tahseen Khaleel
Interfaith Companion, Campus Ministry
A few months ago, a teenager who attended the same mosque I did back home was arrested on charges of terrorism. Our community was rocked by the arrest. The boy’s parents were distraught. Our community imam and alumni of the Islamic school the teenager attended lamented how the actions of a few misguided individuals continue to undermine the best intentions of the rest of Muslims in America. But what really disheartened me were the responses of the boy’s peers. They’d shake their heads and say, ‘Stupid kid had it coming’…
Justice Wore Diamonds
“Justice Wore Diamonds” is a poem written Madeline Anderson, a graduate student in the Institute of Pastoral Studies’ program for Community Development and Social Justice.
Justice wore diamonds to dinner and spoke of the
Common Good.
She danced, laughed, socialized and
Appeared
to balance the expectations of formality
Properly.
She knew the correct answers and held witty
Conversations
That included a majority of the guests to question…
