‘Being Muslim is the new probable cause:’ The student press reports on NYPD’s spying spree [Parsing]

By David A.M. Wilensky February 22, 2012

“Being Muslim is apparently the new probable cause,” begins today’s editorial in the Washington Square News, NYU’s student newspaper. Two Muslim students at Yale began a Feb. 17 op-ed in the Yale Daily News with this: Since the end of the Jim Crow era, politicians have dressed racism in the rhetoric of food stamps and illegal aliens. But…

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Columbia Spectator on Rosh Hashanah

By David A.M. Wilensky September 7, 2010

The Columbia Spectator featured an op-ed yesterday by Aviva Beuchler, president of Columbia-Barnard Hillel about Rosh Hashanah choices. Beuchler writes: Navigating the first few days of classes is always a daunting task. Does this history class fit my schedule, or should I try to enroll in the political science class? Should I take physics or…

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