Although there appear to be thousands of perfectly willing volunteers that will offer their lives on Earth for the chance to possibly live and die on Mars, this does not mean it is the right thing to do to send them there.
I’ve found it difficult to talk to my friends about feminism.
In the next 14 years, there will be a whopping 39 percent increase in Virginian Hispanic students reaching college age.
Republicans are often seen as backwards in terms of women’s rights, but Comstock is not blindly following a Republican platform. Instead, she allows her gender to contribute to her political views.
Those who care deeply about the educational offerings of this University should enthusiastically support the proposed global studies major.
The Depression-induced panic that inspired Social Security is understandable, but it’s high time to replace Roosevelt-era ideologies with ones more suited to our political tradition of individualism and responsibility.
From Greek life, to wardrobe, to student activities, many things have been racialized to either black or white.
Individually suing Ross makes sense, but it is not necessary to blame Barry’s death on all 86 members of his fraternity.
By rejoining these two Martin Luther King Jr.’s — the integrationist of 1963 and the radical democratic socialist of 1968 — we challenge ourselves to recognize the extent that our national hero’s famous “dream” remains unfulfilled.
New Yorkers did not elect Cuomo in order to supply him with a stepping stone toward higher office. They elected him to serve their interests, and one way he can do so is by enhancing early childhood education programs.
To assume that racial tension is a growing problem at the University gives too much weight to the erratic, petty racial slanders that have been made over the years.
Without being sensationalist, I would argue that the racist graffiti outside of Elson Student Health Center is indicative of a larger problem with assumptions and prejudices about race at the University, and it should have been given much more attention from both the local media and the University administrators than it was.
She has 80 names and 30 addresses, and she’s cashing out on 12 Social Security cards and veterans’ benefits from nonexistent dead husbands. She has Medicaid, food stamps, nine children and she’s raking in welfare money under each name.
Although the University has an add/drop period, this differs from the shopping period in that it restricts the credits that can be taken at a time.
By exposing the gross overreaches of the NSA, including monitoring of private emails and phone messages of private citizens without warrants, Snowden was actually performing his duties as well as he possibly could.
The adage that nice guys finish last is hardly new. But at the University, we like to think that our peers who succeed do so honestly.
Rehabilitation isn’t an excuse to give inmates flat-screen TVs or make our penitentiaries luxury hotels. It’s a critical look at the ways in which prisons change those who enter them in profound and irreversible ways, generating anti-social behavior, minimizing dignity and doing little to correct the habits that locked the prisoners up in the first place. Where possible, we should fight these effects.
Today, around 47 million Americans live below the poverty line.
Cheating, or at least trying to gain an unfair advantage over opponents, has forever been an integral part of baseball, whether it comes in the form of stealing signs, physically altering baseballs, corking bats or changing home fields to throw off opponents.
It seems evident that a minimum wage increase may result in marginal improvement in economic growth.
