Brophy students and faculty took part in a lunch time protest of Senate Bill 1070 April 29.
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When the Summit began this year, I had this feeling people had some idea what they were getting into.
Corrupt corporations and the exploitation of workers was something students were not completely naïve to. We were aware that there were problem with companies like Nike, but it never bothered us to the point where we inconvenienced ourselves over it.
The point is we were faintly aware of the problems.
This year’s Summit on globalization spoke about how we must be citizens of the world and how we must help those who are oppressed by big business, though doing this may conflict with political ideas.
It is important for one with strong views who may oppose the suggestions presented by the speakers of the Summit to remember that the Summit is not on globalization; it is a summit on human dignity through the lens of globalization.
The main focus of this Summit, and the ones of the past, was to realize that there are people all over the world being robbed of their dignity.
The expansion of the Internet’s user base and sharing capability has brought with it many benefits, but also many concerns.
One of the biggest we’ve seen is that of privacy.
This concern has been exacerbated by the large expansion in the use of social networking sites like Facebook.
Music has been around since the beginning of mankind, and like us, has evolved over time.
Along with music, the way we dance has gone into new dimensions.
In the Middle Ages, it was risqué for a man and woman who were not committed to each other to hold hands. Some 700 years later not only do we hold hands with complete strangers but we dance in ways that many label as “provocative.”
How was it that we got from the days of the harpsichord to fast electronic beats and apple bottom jeans?
There are several types of drivers out on the roads: truck drivers, SUV drivers and compact car drivers.
I do not necessarily mean just what type of vehicle someone drives. Rather there are three different mentalities drivers fall into.
As the entire school can either drive or will drive in the next year or two, we all have to look out for these mentalities in each other and ourselves on the roads.
All of Brophy was stunned by the cold hard facts that Jim Keady, the founder of Team Sweat, revealed March 1 in Robson Gymnasium.
Keady shared the knowledge he has learned over the past 13 years with the Brophy students during the Summit on Human Dignity, and many were shocked by how much they did not know about Nike.
Apparently, the Indonesian workers for Nike are extremely underpaid and can barely make enough money to purchase the absolute necessities for survival, including food and water.
As I was watching the Spanish news on TV recently, I saw with my own eyes the devastation the people in Haiti suffered after the earthquake on Jan. 12.
Similarly, I saw the news of the disastrous earthquake in Chile on Feb. 27 and realized that there is a need to help a fellow American country.
According to The New York Times, the first Chilean earthquake on Feb. 27 was at an 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale. CNN stated about subsequent quakes on Mar. 15 and 16, “A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit at 11:39 a.m. local time (9:39 a.m. ET), followed by a 6.7-magnitude quake 16 minutes later, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. A third, measured at magnitude 6.0, came 27 minutes later.”
Social Security is a hot topic today, from national to local elections it seems this government program has gotten a lot of attention.
Everyone has heard about Social Security, most students might think it’s something that old people use when they don’t work anymore, and they are right.
Social Security works like this: When you get a paycheck you pay a certain amount to the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA), a fancy way of saying insurance tax, and this tax money goes into a humongous piggy bank.
While The Roundup is almost always in some state of writing, investigating and editing, many hardly see what really takes place within the walls of E331.
More frequently these days, The Roundup may bleep into existence with Twitter posts, Facebook notifications and Web site updates. But it is most known when it is released once a month.
As a monthly publication, it can be hard for students to think that The Roundup even exists in between the dates it is released. However, this could not be farther from the truth.