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The Student News Site of Midwestern State University

The Wichitan
Students socialize while cleaning up at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.

Human Rights Week Encourages Mustangs to Take Action

Samuel Koone, Managing Editor • January 28, 2022

MSU’s MOSAIC Cross-Cultural Center celebrated Human Rights Week from the 17 to the 21 of this month with a series of events designed to bring awareness to social justice issues. Human Rights Week events...

Alden Thompson, radiology senior, (left) and Teresa Perez, radiology senior, (right) watching "America Divided: Something in the Water."

Access to drinking water is a human right

Herbert McCullough • February 1, 2017

The Office of Student Development and Orientation hosted a watch-in documentary, American Divided: Something in the Water, about the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Michigan on Jan. 26 at 7 p.m. in the...

Syreeta Greene, director of equity, inclusion, and multicultural affairs, speaks to students and faculty about the North Dakota Access Pipeline and the effects it will have on Native American land. Photo by Bridget Reilly

Dakota Access Pipeline is more than just a Native American issue

Arianna Davis • February 1, 2017

Students gathered in the Clark Student Center Comanche room as they waited for Syreeta Greene’s speech about the Dakota Access Pipeline on Jan. 26. Greene, director of equity, inclusion, and multicultural...

Panel: Justice, Injustice, Progress and Protest event in the Clark Student had a panel including; Nathan Jun, associate professor of philosophy, Newman Wong, research analyst, Linda Veazey, assitant professor political science, and Richard Smith, deputy chief Wichita Falls Police Department, and had 17 people in attendance. Photo by Rachel Johnson

Discussion panel highlights social injustice for Human Rights Week

Courtney Gilder • January 29, 2015

In the wake of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address where he spoke of human rights and the 2014 protests over the deaths of several unarmed African Americans during police interventions,...

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