Editorial: The art of listening

When freshmen set foot on our campus, they are setting out on a path of discovery. They will be faced with a great flood of ideas they had never encountered before, and encouraged to face each new experience with a fresh and open mind without any preconceptions. But the 2016-2017 academic year is not an ordinary year — we are all faced with a polarized national community. The approval levels for both major party candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, are at historic lows. This election has torn rifts in...