While we profess to celebrate diversity and academic freedom, we now operate under policies that directly attack both. Repeatedly, we see the University and the government say they want to do something, while actively doing the opposite. Last December, the University of Alabama suspended two student magazines, one with a largely female student readership and the other with a largely Black student readership. Zara Cheek Zara Cheek '28 is an Opinion Columnist and a student in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Her fortnightly column, Big Red, White and You, focuses on the intersection of campus issues, diversity, and American politics.
