“America’s Best College” does not exist
This fall, students should look past rankings for a school that fits their needs.
Incendiary language in U.N. address renders efforts futile
Last Friday, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas delivered an incendiary address to the United Nations General Assembly. His speech was packed with fighting words — rhetoric that, in an ironic twist, has turned out to be points of weakness. Though his proposal to end Israeli occupation in the West Bank expresses his people’s frustrations well, Abbas’s […]
President Abbas’s speech opens up a chance at lasting peace
In perhaps his most fiery speech since this past summer’s violence between Israel and Hamas, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the United Nations General Assembly Friday, blasting Israel for conducting a “war of genocide” over its 50-day operation in Gaza that resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 Palestinians and 69 Israelis. In […]
The University needs to revive student activism
This 1st of October marks the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement that began at the University of California, Berkeley. On that day, thousands of Berkeley students surrounded a police car on Sproul Plaza and held it captive for 33 hours in protest of university bans against political activities on campus. The Free Speech […]
Sam Pepper’s prank video crossed the line
Earlier this month, YouTuber and British prankster Sam Pepper released a video, “Fake Hand A– Pinch Prank,” that featured him groping women on the street. Pepper, posing as a confused pedestrian with his hands tucked into his sweatshirt pockets, dissolved into giggles when the women discovered his arm reaching out from behind to touch them […]
Freedom of speech should be allowed in student journalism
The outrage over an article published in The Gazette, a student publication at the University of Western Ontario, on August 19, 2014 forced a lot of students to rethink their parameters of choosing a college to spend four years—or even more—at. The adverse response to this article titled “So you want to date a teaching […]
“State of Emergency” should inspire more urgency
With the surplus of news segments, radio advertisements, and flashing reminders on the side of the freeway, everyone in California knows that the state is in the midst of a drought. Even with this knowledge, many Californians are blatantly ignoring the severity of the situation and continuing in their daily water habits without adjusting to […]
Water parks should not be an incentive for recruitment
Most 20-something’s love water parks. Most 20-something’s also are in college. So, it makes intuitive sense to satiate the needs of 20-something’s thirst for water parks by adding them to college campuses, right? Right – according to many Southeastern universities. In 2016, Louisiana State University is expected to have a new lazy river, which will […]
Lawmakers Must Heed Death Penalty Ruling
Today, California voter support for the death penalty is at its lowest point in more than four decades, according to the L.A. Times. Since the beginning of this year, three of the country’s ten executions have been botched. In January, Ohio inmate Dennis McGuire suffered a 25-minute suffocation. In April, Oklahoma inmate Clayton died after […]
Producing voters who truly care trumps having more registered
National Voter Registration Day took place this past Tuesday, six weeks before Election Day on Nov. 4. In other words, folks around the nation celebrated the equivalent of a college professor having a “don’t forget to turn in your paper in six weeks” day. The national day was established in 2012 by the League of […]