The latest issue of the The Willamette Scene has an
article about the motto. The whole thing is good, succinct and worth reading but I found this part stuck out for me:
This belief in responsibility to others, [Classics professor Otwin] Knorr says, “encapsulates Stoic Cosmopolitanism, that we don’t belong just to our own little polis, our own little state, but we are actually citizens of the world. Because we exist in society, to harm another is to harm oneself.”
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Smaldone op-ed on 4th anniverary of Iraq war
The title is
President must face consequences for the path to war and it appeared in the SJ on 3/19/07. Good work.
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Africa Day
The articles quote two of WU's new professors, Prof. Millen (Anthro) and Fofana (French). Sounds like a good event.
Collegian articleSJ article
With last semester lots of students are striving for social justice,” said Kiri Dyken, 22, a senior studying theater at Willamette University.
Dyken had just signed the Willamette Pledge, something she felt an important personal declaration in a day where many students are apathetic.
“Those students staged walkouts pushing for more diversity and hoping to make students more socially aware,” Dyken said.
Dyken agrees with students feeling passionate about something, but she said the actions of students last semester could have been better directed.
“The faculty could have helped, instead the students tried to get professors to cancel classes or students to walk out,” Dyken said.
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Dyken signed the Willamette Pledge and wrote her own personal pledge colored by things going on around her.
I'm getting a feed that gives me every SJ article that mentions "Willamette University" and, time permitting, will post relevant ones here.
Ben Clanton, of Kalispell Montana, is a freshman at Willamette University. He's new to town but has been instrumental in coordinating campus activities that began this past fall after hearing John Heffernan speak on campus about genocide prevention. As a high school upperclassman, he became aware of the Darfur crisis while studying material for his speech and debate work. A series of personal events led to his move from awareness to action. During his high school years he coordinated a T-shirt sale to raise awareness and donations for the cause. His high school advocacy encouraged a local showing of the documentary "Lost Boys of Sudan."
When he moved to Salem this fall, there was no formal advocacy group for him to join, but after hearing Heffernan's speech, he took the mic requesting anyone interested in follow-up work to move the conversation outside for discussion. That night he met Jacob Swenson, a senior who returned this fall from studies overseas. The two along with a few others formed a core group on campus that has been working to heighten awareness on the crisis, and raise money for action through donations to Mercy Corps. The informal group has some exciting student and youth activities in the works for early next year. If you're interested in joining their work, they can be reached at bclanton@willamette.edu or jswenson@willamette.edu.
