Black Student Association Archives

SGA Rundown: Senators discuss repairing pool tables and increasing the student fee

Amanda Frese, Managing Editor • February 10, 2022

This week, the Student Government Association heard student representatives from the Black Student Association and voted on proposals to fund repairs to damaged pool tables in the Student Union Building, as well as increase the student fee. BLACK STUDENT ASSOCIATION Commencing the meeting in celebration...

Biola begins diversity talks with Lament Session

President Corey and Chief Diversity Officer Tamra Malone respond to a plethora of concerns that has been plaguing Biola's campus.

Thecla Li, Managing Editor • March 16, 2020

“Use ‘I’ statements, don’t interrupt, suspend judgment, speak up and listen up, affirm those who speak, show respect and extend grace.” These were the ground rules established by students and faculty present at the Lament Session that took place Wednesday night at Calvary Chapel. Sparked...

Racist vandalism marks Black History Month

Lack of information about the incident leaves students confused and hurt.

Ashley Grams and Lacey Patrick • February 21, 2020

This story was originally published in print on Feb. 20. This story was updated on Feb. 21 at 9:30 a.m. with new information regarding the university’s response to the incident. Posters of influential African American leaders—abolitionists and freedom fighters—defaced by a racial slur. ...

‘Assimilate or become activists’: Magdalen Rath

Rath shares her reality as an African American woman at Biola.

Julianna Hernandez, News Editor (Spring 2019) • February 22, 2018

While success stories and celebrations of people like Martin Luther King Jr. and Ava Duvernay have surfaced in many student's minds over the last month, for others, the struggles these leaders faced have hardly gone. Junior journalism major Magdalen Rath, also vice president of Black Student Association and...