Equality trumps patient choice in hospital case


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With a twice-elected black president leading the country and increasing diversity in America’s communities, the move toward a world void of racism, sexism and other –isms seems to loom in the near future. Sadly, however, racism continues to persist in appallingly boorish ways, even in places where such behavior should be the last of one’s […]

Should mentally disabled inmates be executed?


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Those considered mentally disabled deserve to be safe from executions that they cannot comprehend.  With less than an hour until his scheduled execution, convicted killer Warren Lee Hill was granted a stay on Tuesday by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Ga. In its statement, the court said the stay was necessary to […]

Kurth-Park Wins Race


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Students have elected juniors Christian Kurth and Ryan Park to serve as Undergraduate Student Government president and vice president, respectively, for the 2013-14 school year. Kurth, the current USG director of university affairs, and Park, a Greek senator, received 2,925 votes, winning by a margin of 7.5 points. The presidential ticket of current USG Senate […]

Vigilante cop doesn’t deserve admiration


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After six bloody days in which four people were killed, former Los Angeles Police Department officer and accused murderer Christopher Jordan Dorner’s body burned in a cabin in Big Bear. It’s quite difficult to pick just one insane moment from his murderous rampage: Was it his merciless killing of an LAPD officer’s daughter and her […]