CONTRIBUTORS

Fall 2018

COMM 233A

Sungyeon Ahn

William Andries

Kamal Apatira

Georges Azouri

Faith Blakey

Colleen Kelly

Benjamin May

Pia Ocvirk

Natalie E. Raskas

Helina Samson

Ryan Scott

Sydney Secuskie

Sarah Selzer

Abigail Smith

Griffin Spurgin

Jarrod Stiver

Aleysha Ward

Theresa R. Weigel

Jackson Williams

Joseph S. Zanca

COMM 233C

Caleb Baue

Jonathan Bonilla

Frederick Coudret

Destiney Davis

DaBreonna Doss

Christopher Douglas

Cailey Griffin

Gunter Jaeger

Emmanuel Koutsouras

Yongjie Li

Katharine McLean

Brogan Miller

Joshua Mundell

Richard Pasch

Daniel Scotto

Ryan Smith

Nathan Stapleton

Leda Turpen

Margaret Wagenbrenner

Kenneth West

BORN (TOO BLACK) THIS WAY

By Faith Blakey My nighttime routine consists of scrolling through my Facebook timeline. More recently, it has been filled with social issues that are both domestic and international; from fashion, politics, to personality tests. One of the most striking posts that I have come across recently was a clip from a documentary; “So when you bleach it makes you look more nicer, look more sexier, and look more cuter than you once was”. These words from a middle aged Jamaican women describes the sentiments that are sold with the global trend of skin bleaching. Her opinions towards skin bleaching, or “bleaching” as they call it in Jamaica, are common. This 2012 Vice documentary explores the idea that skin bleaching and colorism are practices that have become well known and respected in popular Jamaican culture. Although this documentary reveals the deep seated colorism that is prominent in Jamaica, it seems as if colorism has developed into a worldwide epidemi...

THE "ROTTEN APPLE" IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

By Brogan Miller Since 2002, the Catholic church has been under fire for its ongoing sexual abuse scandals within the church. These allegations are coming out more consistently as victims and the families of victims are beginning to challenge the hegemony that has been occurring in the Catholic church. Any church is supposed to be a place where people can feel safe, and those who hold positions in the hierarchy of the church are meant to be trusted. Unfortunately, this state of mind is changing very quickly within the Catholic church. The Catholic church is trying to do things to fix these ongoing issues by enforcing new laws and claiming that the people responsible for these scandals are simply "rotten apples" (White & Terry, 2008). Our class examined this issue earlier in the semester and compared it to police brutality. As the abuse within the Catholic church has been dated back decades, ruling it out as a few "rotten apples" responsible is a disgrace....

Blameless OR Blameworthy?

By Yongjie Li Rhonda S. Black and L. Pretes (2007) quoted Farnall and Smith that individuals have more positive attitudes towards real physical disabled people when they watch positive depictions of them through movies (p.79). It is more acceptable for young people who consider movies as a popular platform, thus, movies can be a tool to build right standards with unfamiliar experiences especially treating with disability people. In general, previous movies focus more on individual personalities and ignore causes, but to underline disabled people personalities is a stereotype. It is because disability defined by social conditions instead of themselves or medical certifications. The reason why people categorize disabled or ordinary people is that individuals regard disabled people as out of normal people type (Kidd, 2014, p.172). The trend which leads people feel blameless originally changes gradually emphasizing the social structure which calls for senses of guilty, especially the ...

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