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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

OPINION

HOW TO SUBMIT

The Opinion section welcomes submissions from all undergraduate UConn students. Those interested in writing for Opinion can come to a meeting on Sundays at 5 PM in The Daily Campus building or email opinion@dailycampus.com.

While all community members are welcome to submit their work via a regular opinion article, Letter to the Editor, or Op-Ed, The Daily Campus is not obligated to respond to or publish any submission. Due to the volume of community engagement, we will not respond to submissions that are not in line with our editorial guidelines.

A full list of up-to-date opinion section standards for all articles can be found at this link. 

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

HOW TO SUBMIT

Letters to the Editor are written by members of the community who are not undergraduate or graduate students. The Daily Campus is student-run and exists primarily to give a platform to the students at UConn. When non-students have an important message they wish to share with the community, we encourage them to write Letters to the Editor.

  • To have a letter printed in The Daily Campus, please follow the guidelines listed below:

    • Limit your letter to 250-400 words
    • We will do our best to publish all articles that are submitted within two weeks.
    • Letters must be emailed to opinion@dailycampus.com.
    • Include your full name as well as your year and major, year of graduation or position on campus. If you are not affiliated with the University of Connecticut, please include your town of residence.
    • Include a phone number and email address where you can be reached. This is for verification purposes only and will not be printed.

OP-EDS

HOW TO SUBMIT

Op-eds are a kind of submission reserved for undergraduate and graduate students at UConn writing specifically on behalf of their membership in a particular group or community here. This could be as a student of a particular subject, participant in a club or political organization, or member of an underrepresented group here. Submissions connect personal experiences to advocacy regarding issues at UConn.

  • Limit your letter to 400 words.
  • Letters must be submitted by 4 p.m. the day prior to when you would like it to run. The Daily Campus cannot guarantee publication if it is submitted past the deadline.
  • Letters must be emailed to opinion@dailycampus.com.
  • Include your full name as well as your year and major, year of graduation or position on campus. If you are not affiliated with the University of Connecticut, please include your town of residence.
  • Include a phone number and email address where you can be reached. This is for verification purposes only and will not be printed.

CULTURE SHOCK

HOW TO SUBMIT

Culture Shock is a column for UConn community members to anonymously discuss race, culture, and ethnicity on campus.

  • If you have been a witness to or victim of derogatory comments or incidents, we strongly encourage you to report it to through UConn’s bias incident protocol or to the UConn Police Department.

    • Entries can take many forms, such as written columns, artwork or poetry. If you do write something, try to keep it between 400-500 words. Please submit pieces here and email any artwork to opinion@dailycampus.com. Feel free to reach out to opinion@dailycampus.com with any questions.
    • This column is not a call-out space — it is an anonymous forum for UConn students to share their experiences on campus. Any identifying information — such as names or apartment numbers — will be edited out.
    • We will do our best to publish all articles that are submitted within a week, but we do retain the right to send articles back for edits if they do not meet our editorial standards of professionalism and respect.
    • We only ask for your name and email address to confirm that you are a UConn student. Your personal information will not be shared in any way, shape or form

Letters to the Editor

Nell Srinath -

Not Just Genocide: Imperialism calls in all shapes and sizes 

“The Democratic Republic of Congo is facing a silent genocide.” “Sudan is on the verge of genocide.” “Nobody is paying attention.” These harrowing statements have been commonplace on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram after the outbreak of war between Palestinian resistance groups and the Israeli military on Saturday, Oct. 7. Over 50 days and one strained, temporary ceasefire later, the world’s attention is still rightly placed on Gaza, where Israeli airstrikes have killed over 14,000 Palestinians and displaced millions more. It remains of urgent importance that students, organized labor, activists and other politically-engaged groups in the United States confront and dislodge our own government’s involvement in the Israeli government’s extermination campaign against Palestinians in Gaza — most recently in the form of easing Israel’s access to a stockpile of U.S. weapons stored within the occupation.
Grace Sim -

​​​The myth and realities of skincare struggles

As someone who has been struggling with acne since middle school, it frustrates me that so many people seem to think my bad skin is the outcome of my own faults. Apparently, my bumpy skin is because I eat too much junk food, don’t wash my face everyday and don’t have a solid skincare routine. I’m told my skin is the way it is because of my poor hygiene and poor habits, and I should do something to fix it.  
Tomas Hinckley -

Incels and cultural change 

Last week I wrote about the incel community and the factors that turn relatively normal men into violent misogynists. This is a group of extremely violent, insecure and self-hating misogynists who have been responsible for the deaths of at least 47 people and countless more injuries over the past few years.
Athena Brown -

The Desensitization Dilemma 

In an age defined by universal digital connectivity, the instantaneous, frequent broadcasts of violence and traumatic events are leaving many viewers — including youth — desensitized. The degree of desensitization varies among people, but according to psychologist Anita Gadhia-Smith, “With the frequency of shootings and terror attacks there is a sense of anxiety that’s building in people, a sense of vulnerability and powerlessness.” People are so bombarded by traumatic events that they start to lose their emotional significance to avoid constant near-crippling anxiety.  
Hla Mohamed -

The urgent humanitarian crisis you haven’t heard of  

It has now been eight months since war broke out in Khartoum, Sudan. According to the United Nations aid chief, more than 10,000 men, women and children have lost their lives since the conflict broke out on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as "Hemedti." Both groups have been relentlessly battling each other to gain full control of the country and its substantial resources.   

Op Eds

Op-Eds -

Op-Ed: Why economic growth fails us 

“We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth.” That was Greta Thunberg at the United Nations Climate Action Summit four years ago denouncing “Green Growth:” the notion that we can continue striving for economic growth while addressing environmental crises. Despite her prudent remarks, policymakers have continued pushing for growth, even while stating ambitious decarbonization goals.
Op-Eds -

Op-Ed: Palestinian Life at UConn

Dear Readers of the Daily Campus,  Being Palestinian on the University of Connecticut’s campus means our identities are not valued and our narrative is silenced. While we understand that many minority communities experience discrimination, we want to bring attention to the challenges and struggles we as Palestinians consistently face.
Op-Eds -

Op-Ed: Shedding Light on the State of Tuberculosis on a Post-COVID-19 Campus 

Most of us here at the University of Connecticut have gone to school or worked through the COVID-19 pandemic, an era full of isolation, FaceTime calls and worrying about the health of ourselves and our loved ones.
Breanna Bonner -

Want to Really Save UCONN? The Solution is Student Organizing. 

When students hopped on buses and attended the #SaveUConn rally last Wednesday, the vast majority of them had one goal in mind: preventing absurd tuition hikes and making UConn a priority to Gov. Ned Lamont.
Op-Eds -

Op-Ed: What we deserve

Over the month of June, I was afforded the opportunity to attend a political science program at Duke and enroll in graduate courses intended to expose my cohort and I to an early graduate school experience. As a part of this program, various scholars in the field of political science came to present their research.

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