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By Keely Coxwell “Chelsea Manning and Snowden are my personal heros,” Daniel Ellsberg said. On Thursday, Oct. 5, students, faculty members and members from the community filled every pew and stood in the back of Kilworth Memorial Chapel to listen to Daniel Ellsberg’s lecture, “SECRETS: From the Pentagon Papers to Snowden and Beyond.” “I was surprised that so many people were there,” Thomas Aquilina ‘19 said. “I went in blind; I didn’t know anything about Daniel Ellsberg or the Pentagon Papers before the lecture.” According to Ellsberg’s website, he “worked...

By Marcelle Rutherfurd Tacoma is making a bid to be the home of Amazon’s second headquarters. The Seattle-based web delivery company is currently searching for a place that fits the necessary requirements to be the home of the building dubbed “HQ2.” “Amazon is outgrowing its hometown of Seattle, and Tacoma hopes that by offering more room to expand and a short commute to the original headquarters, it can beat out Amazon’s other suitors,” Geekwire reported. If Tacoma were to beat out its competitors for HQ2, it would mean big economic...

By Ayden Bolin “A multi-billion dollar corporation is trying to get away with paying its workers $1 per day. That shouldn’t happen in America, and I will not tolerate it happening in Washington,” Bob Ferguson, the Washington State Attorney General, said. Ferguson is suing the privately-owned Northwest Detention Center (NWDC) for this reason. The lawsuit cites the detention center paying detainees in snacks or $1 per day for labor. Because the prison is privately run and for-profit, Ferguson has announced that the prison should be providing its workers with minimum...

By Emily Schuelein “When I first came here in no way did I think I would be able to go abroad. With this new policy, it is a possibility for me,” Joy Risley, a sophomore, said. The revised financial aid policy for study abroad allows students “who study abroad beginning in the 2018-19 academic year to apply institutional merit aid as well as need-based aid to their study abroad experience,” according to a campus-wide email from Kris Bartanen, Academic Vice President, Dean of the University, Interim Vice President for Student...

By Andrew Izzo This year’s Annual Security Report was released on Oct. 1, 2017. This report contains information and statistics about crime and fire reports on and around campus for the last three calendar years, starting in January of 2014 and ending in December of 2016. This report is required by law through the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act of 1990. This essentially requires colleges to outline information on crimes and other incidents that happen on campus. “It was an effort to make...

By Keely Coxwell “The Rohingya are a really small Muslim ethnic minority from Myanmar’s Rakhine state,” Jae Bates ‘18 said. Bates organized an interfaith vigil for the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. The vigil was held Sept. 26 in the Piano Lounge. The conflict between the Rohingya and the majority-Buddhist Myanmar government has endured for decades but things escalated this past August. “After the military took over the Burmese government (now Myanmar) in 1962 were deliberately excluded from the census,” Chanel Chawalit ‘18 said. “In 1978, the military implemented Operation Nagamin...