For class we had to form an annotated bibliography based on the sources that we found and we had to link them together and find what was missing.
My research led me down very interesting paths.
I started out with the research idea of Political apathy at Santa Clara University. This was what my survey was about and I was interested to find out if people on campus were involved in demonstrations or protests or intense political discourse.
I found some kind of meh answers, and the data from my survey told me that maybe this topic didn’t have a conclusive answer. (also almost all of my surveyees were freshmen so that skewed the data)
So I took a new strategy and decided that censorship by SCU would be the better call. I heard about the Vagina Monologues and how the school was not super down with the play being performed on campus.
(I learned way too late that this was due to the fact that the Vagina Monologues as an institution is pro-choice!! which would’ve been super nice to know before I wrote all of these papers because it could’ve been an interesting source!)
I quickly realized this too could lead me to a dead end.
So I pivoted yet again and searched for a new topic.
From Giphy
This is where my sources come in.
The sources I found told a story about Catholicism, Higher Education and Women’s health care.
From Huffington Post
Politicians and citizens have debated this issue for a long time and it’s even a platform for many Republican’s to run on. Instead of the women having a say in a women’s rights issue, old white men have taken over this issue, but that’s for another time.
This is obviously a huge issue in our current political climate and I was intrigued by the specific correlation that this has to Santa Clara University.
The sources I found correlated quite a bit, but many of them told the issue of abortion from different perspectives.
But the main perspective that I want to fill was the perspective of catholicism’s influence on university health care plans and what this does.