by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | December 6, 2013 | Op-Eds & Letters
Today, Vice President Joe Biden held a fundraiser for Sen. Durbin’s 2014 re-election campaign. I wasn’t there and most likely you weren’t either. The “cheap seats” cost $2,500, but tickets ran up to $37,600. I have a pretty good idea, though, of who did attend. For...
by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | November 11, 2013 | Short Articles
By Jamie Merchant and Jacob Swenson Sandy Hook. Columbine. Aurora. Tucson. Fort Hood. These names ring out in popular memory as the sites of seemingly random, horrific atrocities. Mass violence and how we can address it has become a hot-button issue and for good...
by Jacob Swenson-Lengyel | October 17, 2013 | Op-Eds & Letters
Recently, the tragic story of Margaret Mary Vojtko, a longtime contingent faculty member at Duquesne University who died after suffering a heart attack, went viral. Although she had taught at Duquesne for 25 years, it was reported that Vojtko died nearly penniless and...