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02.25.2019 Vol. 219 No. 104
How did we get here?
COURTESY OF ELI C. HILLER Mary Beth Tinker, a free speech activist involved in the Tinker v. Des Moines Supreme Court decision, speaks at the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.
Tinkers to discuss free speech, Supreme Court case
Snapchat debacle highlights divide between Cabinet, Senate BY EMILY.BERCH @iowastatedaily.com Recent incidents in Student Government have highlighted growing frustrations with communication and a division between the executive and legislative branches. Director of Residency Dozmen Lee is currently facing an effort from senators to remove him from his position after posting an 11-minute Snapchat story Tuesday, in which he criticized Student Government culture. While some senators have agreed with Lee’s criticisms, others viewed the video as the final straw in a pattern of unprofessional behavior. Others see it as the tipping point in a larger conflict between the two branches. Director of Sustainability Toni Sleugh and Senior Director of Student Services Zahra Barkley said they have seen pushback from Senate all semester and were discouraged by a feedback report from senators as well as members of the executive branch at the end of the fall semester. “This is a negative environment,” Sleugh said. “The feedback report only goes to show that things have been festering all year, and no one has addressed it.”
BY MADELYN.OSTENDORF @iowastatedaily.com Mary Beth and John Tinker will be speaking about their role in a landmark Supreme C o u r t c a s e a n d t h e c a s e ’s significance in the current political climate in “Stand Up! Speak Up! Youth & the First Amendment” at 7 p.m. Monday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. Feb. 24, 1969, marked the decision for T inker v. Des Moines Independent School S ystems, when Mar y Beth Tinker, John Tinker and their friend Christopher Eckhardt were suspended for wearing black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War and support the Christmas truce. “The Tinker ruling is still c i t e d i n n e a r l y e ve r y s t u dent First Amendment case,” according to the Tinker Tour website. Since 2013, Mary Beth and
NEW VOICES In forming their Cabinet, Julian Neely and Juan Bibiloni intentionally brought in students from across campus, with Bibiloni estimating 80 to 90 percent of their cabinet members having not
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Social justice summit educates students on change BY MARY.VALENTINE @iowastatedaily.com Students came together for Iowa State’s eighth annual Social Justice Summit on Saturday. Speakers at the summit covered topics including intersectionality, implicit bias and microaggressions, white supremacy and power, privilege and oppression. Attendees also had the opportunity to form their own action
plan to aid them in being agents of change on campus. One of the main themes of the summit targeted the question, “What does it mean to be an agent of change?” Janae Due, a graduate student in the school of education who serves on the Social Justice Summit Committee, said they wanted the summit this year to be an accessible place for people with different understandings on social justice to come together and
have an active conversation. “Some people have a great passion, and that’s why they’re here, but for us it brings people together to ask that question and to try to form an answer together,” Due said. One way Iowa State students can be agents of change is to be advocates for social justice in their everyday lives. “I think Iowa State students can be advocates for social justice in a lot of different ways, starting with the very
thoughts that they have ... or having a conversation with someone and even if [they] recognize that what they’re saying is problematic or that’s really exclusive to people’s identities,” said Sarah Kaden, a graduate student in the school of education. Kaden works for the Leadership and Service Center in the Student Activities Center, and some of her main roles include planning the logistics of the Social Justice Summit
and forming the committee. The committee organized this daylong workshop for students to leave Iowa State more equipped to face social justice issues than when they came. “I hope students just feel ... some sort of empowerment to go and make change or they feel huge amounts of uncomfortability because they’re acknowledging that these things exist and these systems exist,” Kaden said.