UPDATED: This piece was last updated on Sept. 3 at 1:15 p.m. CDT. A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that the owner was allegedly a VUPD officer; the owner is a third-party campus security officer. An unattended handgun was found in a Blair School of Music bathroom on the evening of Sept. 2.
Maria Ressa, an internationally acclaimed journalist who was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for exposing government corruption and human rights violations in her native Philippines and for defending free and accurate speech worldwide, called on the Vanderbilt Class of 2023 to seek truth and facts despite the “toxic sludge” of misinformation manipulating social media.