The negative side to digital activism is that social media is all about trends, whereas fighting for human rights is not. We cannot reduce decades of work to one hashtag or hundreds of black squares.

While Zoom can be exhausting and we’d all rather chat with friends in a real classroom, we’ve compiled a list of the top eight phenomena that bring joy our “Zoom University.”

It’s OK to not always be Zoom-camera-ready. It’s mentally draining to be “on” all of the time, and it’s imperative to take a much-needed breather.

When you tell a Black athlete to “Shut up and dribble,” you are only valuing them for those gifts and not their entire person. There was a time when valuing a Black person for solely their physical attributes was called “slavery.”

As Chapman is a microcosm of America with its flaws and freedoms, being proud to be a Panther often means reflecting on how Chapman can do better. 

On Aug. 12, Chapman law professor John Eastman published an article in Newsweek questioning Kamala Harris’ citizenship. So many members of the community that Chapman claims to care so much about, were outraged – and the institution does nothing except hide behind the front of free speech.

Over the past few months, there’s been too many times where we as students have not been proud to be Panthers. 

That being said, should a member of the Chapman administration decide to run again, we hope that they do things differently.

Get out and vote.

Change is slow. It does not come overnight. It is not the result of one single action. It is not an instant shift that happens in the blink of an eye. It is gradual, steady. It doesn’t occur from the wave of a magic wand. Change occurs when we join together and make it happen. If we want it, we have to earn it.

In order to keep this promise, Chapman must ensure that its commitment to safety is fulfilled. Regardless of the school, the location or the crime levels, schools advertise their commitment to ensuring safety on campus – they take pride in it.

It would be naive to pretend that what happened on campus Feb. 4 was an isolated incident. It would be easy to brush it off as a bizarre and rare occurrence that fails to highlight our school’s morals. It would be an easy way out to say that what happened on our campus is not a reflection of our university’s values. But that would be inaccurate.

Perhaps no one knows this more than us. It’s visible in the issues we’ve published this semester and the news stories we have covered. A lot has gone on at Chapman.

As much as we disagree with some of the past sentiments expressed by Sanders, we understand that it’s absolutely necessary to encourage critical dialogue on college campuses.

Which leaves us asking: what do we say now? What can we say that hasn’t already been said?

To the Chapman Community,

There are so many things wrong in Lisa Sparks’ email, that it is difficult to know where to begin. We will try to do this in some order

It’s time for this culture to change. Sports can be a beautiful display of individuality and an inspiring outlet for physical expression; women shouldn’t be dissuaded from pursuing that.

From the revelations we discovered, the apologies we received and national media attention garnered because of the Bush event, we wanted to take the time to regroup and reflect. Why was keeping The Panther out of the Bush event a problem in the first place?

It’s no longer news that The Panther was restricted from attending the George W. Bush event last week. What is news, however, is who put conditions on our attendance and coverage.

We were allowed access to the Oct. 9 George W. Bush event. But before we could publish the story, we had to send it to the Bush team for final approval. Words cannot begin to describe how unethical this is.