As a recent immigrant, I was looking forward to the May 1 campus protest for “A Day Without Immigrants,” which promised to highlight the inequities suffered by immigrants and the faults of the U.S. immigration policy. However, I was disappointed to see the focus of the rally narrowed down to a push for rights for illegal immigrants, thereby ignoring deficiencies in rights for legal immigrants. More »
Adam Patinkin ‘07 argues in his guest op-ed on May 18 (“Demanding Our Right to Vote”) that the recent measures enacted by the New Hampshire state legislature by HB 1566 are several things: first, that campus bipartisanship which opposes the issue is inherently meaningful; second, that students as members of the community deserve a say in the laws which govern that community and are being stripped of their right to vote; and third, that the law itself is unconstitutional per Symm v. United States. He makes other points, of course, but I will limit this cursory examination only to those. More »
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