Freedom of the Press: Straw Poll on the First Amendment Part 2
Trinity students, faculty and staff are definitely skeptical of all news and know that good research and independent thinking are key to keeping democracy vital. And there’s a big generation gap when it comes to choosing newspapers, television or social media as the favored news source.
Constitution Day 2017: First Amendment Poll Part One: Freedom of Speech
Voices of Trinity: Freedom of Speech! For Constitution Day 2017 we took a First Amendment Straw Poll of the Trinity community. The results on the Freedom of Speech question are on today’s blog, more to come on Press and Religion later this week!
Land O’Lakes: Legacy and Leverage
50 years after the Land O’Lakes statement on Catholic higher education, we are called to be leaders of a new revolution for racial and social justice, for hope, for charity and peace.
Catholic Bishops on DACA Action
Trinity joins the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in denouncing the elimination of DACA protection as a reprehensible rejection of Catholic and Christian values in social justice and care for those who are marginalized.
Trinity Stands with Dreamers
As a matter of social justice, deeply rooted in Catholic teachings on the dignity of human life and consistent with our mission values, Trinity stands proudly with our students who are Dreamers and urges preservation of the DACA program.
Leadership Imperatives
True leadership is a moral act to restore hope, ensure justice, achieve peace. Leaders cannot equivocate in the face of clear hatred, provocation and violence. We must be clear and firm: there is no place in American society for those who seek to foment racial hatred.
Charlottesville: American Tragedy Redux
Racism, white supremacy, sporting of Nazi symbols — we must confront the hatred and insist that our national leaders speak and act unequivocally to renounce association with the evil forces that have long plagued American history.
Harvard Joins the Club
Harvard’s first year class is a milestone in the university’s nearly 400 year-old history. Trinity’s been there for a while. More and more universities will be welcoming a majority of students of color in the years ahead.
Voices of Trinity: Marisel Morales and the Call to Public Service
Trinity Alumna Marisel Morales writes about the years she spent as the HUD Regional Director for New York and New Jersey during the administration of President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2004.
Least, Lost, Left Out
Social Justice demands that the federal budget care for our neighbors in need.