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Apparently, just being in certain rooms is a microaggression. According to a new report released by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, just “walking into or sitting in” a classroom full of white people is a microaggression in itself. “Students of color reported feeling uncomfortable and unwelcomed just walking into or sitting in the classroom, especially if they were the only person of color, or one of a few,” stated the report, which designated the experience a microaggression. “People do not necessarily say I do not belong, but I feel as if I do not when I am in a...

A troupe of demonstrators circled the Cathedral of Learning Tuesday, to protest U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq. The day marked the two-year anniversary of the United States' first bombings in Afghanistan, which launched the current military campaign against terrorism. Local activist groups, the Thomas Merton Center and the Pittsburgh Professors for Peace and Justice, organized the march. "[What] we are here to show is that we are still vigilant," said Tim Vining, executive director of the Merton Center "We are watching what is happening in Iraq and it has become clearly an occupation and is not about liberating...