The Weekly Rose

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) ranks colleges based on their free speech environment. These rankings feign neutrality while excusing fascism, they do not represent the full picture of how free speech operates on campus.

To better understand Marx’s original vision for socialism, it is best to go straight to the source(s). In Marx’s “Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts of 1844” and “The Communist Manifesto”, co-written with Engels, communism is described in a number of ways – positively, negatively, tangentially, and otherwise – which can be synthesized into an understanding of Marx’s socialist vision of a post-capitalist world.

Management takes months to produce counterproposals and is often underprepared to bargin, but tell UAKU "Don't punish us for good deeds". Over a year after winning their union, there is still no contract in sight for faculty and academic staff as the University of Kansas’ management stalls negotiations.

Private equity billionaire David Booth has contributed a portion of his multi-billion dollar fortune to KU’s latest vanity project and its floundering football team.

How Blue Cross and Blue Shield and the Kansas Chamber allied against consumers in their fight against KanCare

State Universities, financially bound to the legislature, are overcomplying in lock step with their every demand at the expense of diversity initiatives and trans students, faculty, and staff.

Formatting your email signature in the face of the pronoun ban may seem daunting. Comply with the letter, but not the spirit of the law, and fill your email with non-gender identifying pronouns.

When people imagine knitting, they picture their grandma hunching over in a rocking chair, not, this author, a nonbinary teen with a mullet. But since the pandemic, fiber arts have seen a dramatic rise in popularity with younger generations. Knitting and crochet have been dismissed as “grandma hobbies;” slow, domestic, and too feminine to be taken seriously. However, that dismissal is misogynistic, and misses the point entirely. Knitting uses intergenerational knowledge and community as a quiet rebellion against a world obsessed with speed and profit. Basically, I’m saying my knitting is punk as hell.

CapFed is a facade beyond its modular facade; it is a shell over an institution that exists to reproduce the logics it teaches and the capitalists it relies on – no matter the ‘external’ costs. It understands its role in the community, it knows it will always have support from private actors and University administration, and doesn’t care that it eliminates contingent possibilities, both practical and theoretical.

A History of Coltan Mining and Extraction in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . To fuel its tech boom, as is its nature, the First World is preying upon the Third for its resources

Beauty is not an objective fact; it is a social construct, reified across generations and composed of endless threads of styles, genres, artists, notions, and cultures. It is an expression of ourselves and the vast diversity across humanity, united not by one standard of beauty, but by many.

In 1992, former Kansas Senator Bob Dole tried to kill public broadcasting. Trump is pushing Congress to finish the job.

While administrative compensation has skyrocketed, the purchasing power of faculty and academic staff salaries at KU has declined by almost a fifth. Girod sits inside his cushy office, separated from the rest of the university by a passcode lock, while the departments he oversees make enormous sacrifices to make ends meet.

Kansas Christian College, a staple of Overland Park, is a private school whose programming is more focused on God than academics. They spread a conservative model of Christianity by forming a small community of students of all backgrounds and molding them in accordance with their vision for the world. A look into a local private college reveals the deeper nature of American conservative Christianity. Image credit: Kansas Christian College

Criticism and misinterpretation has erupted following the passing of a Resolution Recognizing the Ongoing Genocide in Palestine. Let’s clear that up.

With a flurry of executive orders and proposed anti-DEIB legislation, students are left feeling dazed and confused with few answers. What can we do to protect our minority students when our administration fails to? How can we prevent the last few shreds of protection our minorities on campus have against fascist violence?

The Left needs a clear and well-tested framework for defining, separating, and responding to these attacks on public life. That is why, on April 18th, the YDSA at Kansas State invited political philosopher, scholar, and professor Dr. Gabriel Rockhill to speak at our campus

In the wake of Trump’s fire and brimstone immigration policies, which included revoking the protected status of schools and churches, the YDSA at Kansas State acted swiftly to craft protections for our community. Our campus needed a popular and simple campaign to encourage our community of immigrants and the general population to join us in a struggle to protect undocumented students.

From silencing progressive voices to uncritically platforming conservative speakers, the paper often runs cover for the school and institutional powers rather than challenging them. This series will dissect The Collegian's reporting practices and expose how they fall short of journalistic independence.

On Wednesday, April 9th, 2025, the University of Kansas (KU) Student Senate voted to pass Resolution 2025-306, “A Resolution Recognizing the Ongoing Genocide in Palestine”. This eight page-long resolution, written and submitted by JSPL (Jewish Students for People’s Liberation), KU SJP (KU Students for Justice in Palestine), and KU YDSA (KU Young Democratic Socialists of America), documents war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide committed by the Israeli state against the Palestinian people.