When we talk about the American Nation as the union of all of those oppressed in this country, it may seem easy to write it off as an abstract concept wrapped in hollow theory. However, it is of paramount importance to note that when we are discussing the Nation we are discussing her not as some chimera that has no bearing on reality, but as the demonstrated reality of the United States of America. And nowhere is our Nation more present than on a university's campus. Here at Loyola University New Orleans— or quite frankly at any university— we are constantly presented with new people, ideas, opportunities, and identities that may have been unseen or heard of elsewhere. It is not mistake that reactionary forces in the United States must make a public spectacle of ridiculing "campus radicals" and the new identities that students adopt prior to their ascent into the so-called "real" world. It is on the university campus, that we see the closest thing to a present-d...