Careful analysis of the “rubinnn” group chat reveals students’ incredible strength and perseverance in the face of a 12 AM evacuation and at least four subsequent false alarms. — In the first two hours of February 19, the fire alarms in Rubin went off somewhere between five and eight times. Students evacuated once, reentered the building and sat through thirty minutes of screeching loud false alarms. This is the true story of a group of students, yanked from their…

The Supreme Court vs. Democracy, the Problem of Judicial Review The Supreme Court, seven unelected judges, has the power to overule the American legislature. Why? And does judicial review make the Supreme Court superior to the legislature? It certainly feels that way when the US government takes a leap towards…

“It wasn’t NYU’s vaccine to use for NYU.” — According to a piece by the New York Times, several hospitals, including NYU’s Langone Health and Columbia University’s Millstein Hospital, have given the COVID-19 vaccine to employees who were ineligible for the vaccine under New York State protocols. …

(This article was originally posted on a Sites at Penn State Website in 2019 and has been updated for Medium) I wonder what protestors in 1954, impassioned by a Supreme Court decision that would unravel segregation in America, would find harder to believe; that in 65 years an African American…

(This was a letter to the editor published in November of 2019. The right wing coup I address in this letter was successfully reversed by indigenous activists over the course of 2020. The nation held elections and Evo Morales’ party, MAS or Movement Towards Socialism, won in a landslide.) The…

“In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Such an opportunity … is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.” — Majority opinion, Brown vs. …

“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men, — the balance wheel of the social machinery.” Horace Mann “One of the great civil injustices is to say we’re going to make your education dependent on your Zip code.” Pennsylvania Governor…

On February 3, 1964, 460,000 students in New York City refused to go to school. Even adjusting for truency rates, it was the biggest civil rights demonstration in U.S. history. And it happened in a city in the North, where school segregation had been illegal since 1920, and city leaders…

My aunts were born into a wealthy Syracuse family. My grandmother sent them to an impoverished inner-city school. By the time my dad was in Elementary School, Syracuse had begun a bussing program to integrate schools. I decided to interview my dad, Dr. Blair Tuttle, to get a full report…