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Dordt Community Responds to Title IX Lawsuit Against Department of Education Zac Vanderley– Staff Writer Art: Sports: News: News: Minari Dordt Heritage Dordt Review football Village hosts in NAIA vaccine Playoffs clinic page 4 page 6 page 2 page 2 April 16, 2021 Issue 6 Follow us online Dordt community responds to Title IX lawsuit against Department of Education Zac VanderLey– Staff Writer “Dordt is facing an existential crisis,” said lawsuit, the Coalition of Christian Colleges Dordt University professor Donald Roth in and Universities (CCCU) stated they were response to the title IX lawsuit as it pertains to reviewing the lawsuit. They explained how the university. they hold religious convictions and the ability Elizabeth Hunter, et al. v. U.S. Department to teach them at private schools in high regard. of Education includes two plaintiffs currently They also want students to feel safe--especially attending Dordt—junior Lauren Hoekstra and LGBTQ persons. In this context, there is no senior Avery Bonestroo. It was filed on March tolerance for bullying, harassment, or assault of 29 by the Religious Exemption Accountability any kind, the CCCU wrote, and they hope to Project (REAP) in the U.S. District Court in learn and grow from their review. Oregon. The lawsuit states that schools who Dordt University is no stranger to engaging receive federal funding should not be able to with the federal government. In 2012, in the discriminate against LGBTQ students, even case Dordt College v. Sebelius, they sued the if the discrimination is based in a religious Department of Health and Human Services. conviction. At a surface level, the suit was a stand against The lawsuit is not filed against Dordt, but if abortion made by Dordt and other Christian it was, or another lawsuit similar to it, were to schools through their desire to refrain from pass the Supreme Court—or if the Equality Act dispersing “morning-after” pills as part of as written was to pass the Senate—Dordt would faculty healthcare plans. The greater purpose of be forced into change in some way or form. the suit, though, according to President Hoekstra In Roth’s eyes, Dordt has, on the surface, was to maintain the underlying Founder’s its tax-exempt status. Contributed Photo two ways of moving forward in the long-term Vision of Dordt regarding the importance of If any gender or sexuality-based rulings future: either virtually eradicate all moral loans (direct student loans), which account for allowing religious organizations to exist outside were to impact Dordt in the near future, policy based on sexuality, marriage, and 5.5 million dollars of tuition money a year, and the church with their religious convictions. President Hoekstra and Dordt administration anything not specifically criminal to maintain PLUS loans, which account for 2.2 million This vision of allowing religious people are committed to ensuring students have a home federal funding (grants, research loans, and dollars in tuition money a year. Thus, the base to be educated their own way before entering at their university. Though, if federal funding financial aid for students), or maintain all the pay for each student would increase were this different spheres of the world is, once again, were removed from the school, students would spiritually-founded moral code and potentially lawsuit or the Equality Act to win in court. being called into question by the title IX lawsuit. lose around 1.4 million dollars in Federal Pell risk losing accreditation, federal funding, and On April 1, three days after the filing of the Grants along with the ability to take out Stafford Continued on pg. 8 Dordt removes mask mandate, goes against CDC guidelines Sam Landstra—Co-Chief Editor Rynders said. “I felt kind of ignored.” body, those who had “significant concerns” Hoekstra is part of the eight-member about the changes were told they could request President’s Cabinet that made the decision to their professors for masking to continue in their remove the mask mandate. With the COVID-19 classes. Also, professors were told they should task force having dissolved at their own request honor such requests. in early March, the cabinet has since been the On the Monday morning when the mandate primary decision-making team for COVID-19- was lifted, Luke Hawley, an associate professor related matters on campus. of English, requested his CORE 180 class There are no medical professionals on the continue masking after hearing from his cabinet, unlike the task force, but they took into students. From his role as a faculty member, consideration the changes that regional health having to navigate masked and unmasked facilities, including Sioux Center Community classrooms is what is “most frustrating” about Hospital, had made to remove required masking the changes. in non-patient areas. The cabinet did not contact “It’s hard enough at the end of the semester local health administrators for this specific to keep people motivated.” Hawley said. Contributed Photo decision, which went against CDC guidelines. “This feels like a change to the learning On the morning of Monday, April 5, freshman since the first day of classes this academic year. With lower COVID-19 case counts in environment—and not for the better.” Annika Rynders woke up to a different-looking “It was sort of a mixed message.” Rynders the community, as well as a lower number of Hawley is a type 1 diabetic—a population Dordt University. On her masked walk to class said, referencing how the university has used students in isolation or quarantine, the cabinet at a greater risk from COVID-19. He wears a through the Ribbens Academic Complex, she the motto “Love God, love your neighbor, love had been looking for ways to “let out some more mask to protect himself and others from the passed by a significant majority of students and yourself, love Dordt” throughout the year in line” when it came to pandemic guidelines on virus. faculty without the CDC-recommended piece support of their COVID-19 guidelines. “I was campus, according to Hoekstra. That same day, Hawley attended a listening of fabric. And, as she took her seat in the middle upset and frustrated.” That began with renewing dorm open hours session for the faculty senate—an opportunity of her EDUC-145 class, she waited anxiously Rynders wanted to advocate for those on in underclass housing the week before. for professors to present potential agenda for her professor to announce masks were still campus with underlying health conditions They also studied test results from athletics items to members of the senate. It was his first required for the period. and took her concerns for this demographic to and choir groups returning from off-campus time. For the first half hour, the well-attended “I don’t feel safe on campus, especially since the very top. In a meeting with President Erik trips. From this population, only two positives meeting consisted of faculty members asking Monday.” Rynders said. “I don’t understand Hoekstra, she asked the top university official— were yielded. for reasoning behind the new ruling. There was why it’s occurring right now.” who was “very welcoming” to her—how the “I think that Dordt has done a good frustration in the air. On the Friday prior, Dordt University decision fit into the framework of loving one’s job paying attention to both science and “Nobody really had any clear information announced in an email that, effective Monday, neighbor. Hoekstra replied he did not want community.” Hoekstra said. “Taking everything about that.” Hawley said. “If there had been a masks were no longer required in classrooms to force students to mask if it was relatively into account, the cabinet decided it was time to more public conversation, I maybe could and common areas on campus. This change medically safe to do otherwise. do this.” lifted the longstanding mask mandate in place In the email sent out to the entire student “It wasn’t fully the answer I was expecting.” Continued on pg. 8 page 2 News News page 3 Dordt University hosts Newly-approved sports COVID-19 vaccine panel Q&A vaccine clinic Lexi Schnaser—Staff Writer facility promises benefits Lexi Schnaser—Staff Writer Gideon Brandsma, a nursing student at the correct response. These new vaccines are aborted fetal cells and the development of this other people who have been vaccinated, we can Dordt, hosted a COVID-19 vaccine panel doing the same thing, except they are delivering type of vaccine. Is it ethical to get this vaccine? go out to eat again, and our economy can get Dordt University collaborated with Sioux help set up the clinic. Sioux Center Health then for Dordt, Sioux Center featuring professors Kate Vander Veen, Kristin the genetic code for a very small part of the A: Researchers have been using cells better again. Center Health and the Iowa Governor’s Office suggested having nursing students help as well. Van De Griend, and Jeff Ploegstra on April 5. virus. This piece of the virus can’t reproduce that were derived from probably only three Q: Why should I be vaccinated if I can just on Wednesday, April 7 to host an on-campus The sophomore and junior nursing students Vander Veen has been practicing and teaching in you, but it’s enough to make your immune abortions that happened in the 1970s and 1980s. build natural immunity? COVID-19 vaccine clinic for Dordt students. were asked to help administer the vaccines and community system react. These cells have been processed and replicated A: Natural immunity will likely be much Sydney Brummel — Staff Writer nursing for over 30 years, Van De Griend is an The clinic, stationed in the DeWitt Gymnasium, senior nursing students helped supervise and Q: What are some possible long-term and grown as cells for 40 or 50 years.
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