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Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

Vanderbilt's First and Only Nonpartisan Political Journal

Vanderbilt Political Review

Foreign Policy Organization Invades Campus

Foreign Policy Organization Invades Campus

Ben Noon October 8, 2018

On Tuesday, October 9 at 7 pm, The Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS) will be hosting its first event titled: “What is the United States’ Role in the World?” George Mason University professor Colin...

Sexual assault myths and misconceptions in the #MeToo era

Sexual assault myths and misconceptions in the #MeToo era

Lindsay Williams October 5, 2018

One year ago today, actress Ashley Judd sparked a national conversation about sexual assault and harassment with her allegations in the New York Times that powerful movie producer Harvey Weinstein had...

OPINION: Integrating School and Spirituality

OPINION: Integrating School and Spirituality

Danny Harris October 1, 2018

Many millennials seem to share the misconception that all religion is simply a set of rules one must follow in order to appease a powerful overlord or face punishment for a lapse in morality — and thus...

Leaked Images Reveal Vanderbilt Speakers Committee Brainstorming

Leaked Images Reveal Vanderbilt Speakers Committee Brainstorming

Avi Mediratta September 14, 2018

It was a quiet and cool Sunday evening at Vanderbilt University, and the Vanderbilt Political Review (VPR) was having an executive board meeting in Kissam C216. In the minutes leading up to 8:00pm, VPR...

Security Amongst Non-Residential Upperclassmen

Security Amongst Non-Residential Upperclassmen

Grace Adcox September 11, 2018

Among major US metropolitan areas, Nashville strikes a balance between a modern urban center for millennials, and a home for those who crave the quaintness of small-town life. With that reputation comes...

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Avi Mediratta August 31, 2018

I can vaguely recall walking confusedly down Alumni Lawn, enveloped in joyful screaming from my new upperclassmen peers and flanked by posters listing campus organization after campus organization. This...

A Conversation with Justice Sotomayor

A Conversation with Justice Sotomayor

Eric Asen April 28, 2018

Several weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor came to Vanderbilt to meet with students and faculty. Before her formal presentation at the Vanderbilt Law school, Justice Sotomayor met with various...

Letter from the Editor: Goodbye, Good Luck, and Thank You

Letter from the Editor: Goodbye, Good Luck, and Thank You

Alexandra Doten April 27, 2018

As a first year student wandering the stalls of the organization fair, I had an overwhelming sense of inferiority. I joined my friends upstairs in the commons center and watched them grab fliers for a...

Hey Vanderbilt, Why Are You Always "So Busy?"

Hey Vanderbilt, Why Are You Always “So Busy?”

Danny Harris April 15, 2018

The Stevenson Library which had worked them down, was the library that grinds young people old; the children had ancient faces and grave voices; and upon them, and upon the grown faces, and ploughed into...

Aerial images of Vanderbilt Campus and Kirkland Hall
(Daniel Dubois / Vanderbilt University)

Wanting To Be Single (Digit)

Stephanie Wang April 13, 2018

On March 27, 2018, Vanderbilt University released their admissions decisions for the Class of 2022. Students may be surprised by this year’s results - a drop from 10.9 percent in 2017 to the single digits.  “In...

Debate Brings Bipartisan Heat to Campus

Debate Brings Bipartisan Heat to Campus

Alejandro Monzon April 12, 2018

As a part of Bipartisan Week on Vanderbilt’s Campus, the Vanderbilt College Republicans (VCR) and the Vanderbilt College Democrats (VCD) set-up and participated in a debate around gun policy. Will Newell,...

Wild Weather in a Post Climate-Change World

Wild Weather in a Post Climate-Change World

Gavin Yuan March 26, 2018

Whether or not you agree with the idea of man-made climate change, it is irrefutable that climate change-related natural disasters have become increasingly frequent and destructive. Scientist report that...

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