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[email protected]. XAVIER Published by the students of Volume CIV Issue 24 Xavier University since 1915 March 14, 2018 NEWSWIRE Fiat justitia, ruat caelum xaviernewswire.com Faculty found new anity group Whites for Racial Justice aims to establish and strengthen students’ solidarity BY ALANA HARVEY The group was founded Staff Writer at the beginning of 2018 by Xavier’s new affinity staff members Randy Browne, group Whites for Racial Jus- Tracey DuEst, John Fairfield tice (WFRJ), which made and Andrea Wawrzusin. Fair- its campus debut earlier this field explained that the four year, aims to establish and staff members, who serve as strengthen solidarity among the group’s facilitators, were students. inspired to make WFRJ an According to its mission established group because of statement, “Whites for Racial an increased presence of rac- Justice (WFRJ) is an affinity ist attitudes both locally and space for self-identified white nationally. staff, faculty and students at “(We) came together out Xavier University who want of a concern about the way to become anti-racist, anti-su- racist attitudes have become premacist white allies and ex- more prevalent and more ac- amine their own ideas about cepted both on campus and in race and racism.” It also aims the country at large,” Fairfield “to develop awareness, knowl- said.