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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

Is Vanderbilt Legally Obligated to Divest? Sitting Down with the Head of Dores Divest

Is Vanderbilt Legally Obligated to Divest? Sitting Down with the Head of Dores Divest

April 24, 2022

Chancellor Diermeier speaking as a Vanderbilt University representative at the 2020 International Pipeline Conference on the “Managing Perceptions” Panel to executives from ROSEN Group and TC Energy....

“Sanctions Are Not A Substitute for Policy:” Dr. Anna Borshchevskaya Speaks on Russia-Ukraine

“Sanctions Are Not A Substitute for Policy:” Dr. Anna Borshchevskaya Speaks on Russia-Ukraine

Megan Michaels, Contributor April 5, 2022

“Vladimir Putin has catastrophically miscalculated the initial outcome of the war,” Dr. Anna Borshchevskaya stated when asked by Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of History Thomas Schwartz about...

Sen. Marsha Blackburn Speaks to Vanderbilt College Republicans

Sen. Marsha Blackburn Speaks to Vanderbilt College Republicans

Patrick Tolan, Contributor April 3, 2022

Image Credit: “Marsha Blackburn” (unmodified) by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 On the evening of Tuesday, March 15, Vanderbilt College Republicans (VCR) hosted United States Senator...

Drawing of three figures with gender symbols on them created by a young Hunter Schafer

Hunter Schafer on the Intersection of Art and Activism

Chloe Hall April 1, 2022

Article Header Image by Hunter Schafer published on https://www.rookiemag.com/2015/04/dancing-on-my-own/ “Making work in order to get the oppressors to humanize you is kind of sad when you think about...

Author Mikhal Dekel on the Holocaust, Gulags, and Memory

Author Mikhal Dekel on the Holocaust, Gulags, and Memory

Danni Chacon, Contributor March 31, 2022

When contending history, to whom does history belong? Mikhal Dekel, as well as other speakers of the Holocaust Lecture Series, answer this question through their levels of expertise on historical events...

Women in Government Hosts Lidia Stiglich, Nevada Supreme Court Justice

Women in Government Hosts Lidia Stiglich, Nevada Supreme Court Justice

Lily Bragin March 29, 2022

For the 2020-2021 school year, Vanderbilt University’s campus held 7,516 women pursuing degrees across our schools. This amounts to approximately 56% of students. In 2020, 51% of the law school students...

Odessa Kelly’s Case for Nashville

Odessa Kelly’s Case for Nashville

Ainsley Gill, Contributor March 28, 2022

Image Credits: Joey Kemeny As a child, Nashville native Odessa Kelly never imagined she’d be involved in politics. Now, she’s the progressive Democrat running for Congress in Tennessee's District...

Lt. Gov. McNally Talks State Politics, Fiscal Responsibility with College Republicans

Lt. Gov. McNally Talks State Politics, Fiscal Responsibility with College Republicans

Donald Hall, Managing Director March 23, 2022

“It's better to try and work out problems and better to remain civil,” was Tennessee Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally’s response to the question about how working across the political aisle at the...

VIDEO: VSG Candidates Tackle Divestment, the Rudy Rochman Event, and Greek Life

VIDEO: VSG Candidates Tackle Divestment, the Rudy Rochman Event, and Greek Life

Isabella Randle, Deputy Editor-in-Chief March 19, 2022

On Wednesday, March 16, the Vanderbilt Political Review (VPR) interviewed the two candidate tickets for the Vanderbilt Student Government (VSG) presidential elections. Deputy Editor-in-Chief Isabella...

Vanderbilt College Democrats-Republicans Discussion: A Refreshing Exercise of Civil Discourse

Vanderbilt College Democrats-Republicans Discussion: A Refreshing Exercise of Civil Discourse

Kyle Heard, Contributor February 23, 2022

Image courtesy of Shane Mumma With the world of American politics as tumultuous as ever, the time seemed ripe for a discussion between Vanderbilt’s two largest political organizations: Vanderbilt...

Vanderbilt’s Class Action Lawsuit: a Vanderbilt Law School Professor’s Take

Vanderbilt’s Class Action Lawsuit: a Vanderbilt Law School Professor’s Take

Shreya Gupta, Contributor February 14, 2022

Photo Courtesy of Vanderbilt University via Flickr Almost a month has passed since the filing of a class-action lawsuit against Vanderbilt and a number of other top universities for colluding to fix...

Vanderbilt students posing with a flag at the COP26 conference

Commodores at COP26: Vanderbilt Students Attend Prominent Climate Conference

Riley Black January 25, 2022

Vanderbilt students recently had the chance to attend the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. These students participated in discussions at the prominent environmental...

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