As Christmas shopping, finals and holiday travel lead to us all stressing out, it’s easy to lose track of how lucky we are as students at the University.
Natural disasters tend to affect poor areas much more than rich ones. Haiti’s poor infrastructure exacerbated the effects of the devastating 2010 earthquake that struck the country: collapsing buildings and other structures caused thousands of deaths. In contrast, the earthquake that struck California in 1989, which recorded about the same magnitude as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, killed just 63 people.
As soon as we allow for agents of the state or even citizens of our nation to exempt themselves from common laws on the basis of moral conviction, we allow each person to become, as Justice Brandeis once put it, “a law unto himself.”
Even the most worthwhile cause can be disregarded if a certain group imprudently promotes its views. Such is the case at the University of Texas at Austin, where a student club’s desire for discussion and dialogue has been overshadowed by its own idiocy.
After years of Tea Party-led trench warfare in Washington, such a message is understandably relieving for liberals looking for an opposition party willing to govern. It is Christie’s brand as a “moderate dealmaker,” however, that ultimately makes him so dangerous to everything liberals claim to value, especially to the New Deal vision of social democracy that liberals have been building for generations.
With social media providing a ready-made forum for friends and acquaintances to engage, why wouldn’t we take advantage of it?
Any attempt to reform the NSA and other such agencies should not be so impassioned as to render the agencies themselves ineffectual. Instead, we should attempt to eliminate impermissible invasions of personal privacy while allowing reasonable intelligence-gathering for national defense purposes.
Under orders from current Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who recently lost his bid for governor, Fairfax County, which leans blue, had to retroactively change the rules so that legal proxies are no longer allowed to advocate for ballots if the voters themselves are not present. Voters had until last Tuesday to come back to the polls to defend their ballots.
Since New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s sweeping victory last week — and before it — many pundits consider Christie the likely GOP nominee for president in 2016.
October, with its endless midterms, interminable stress and great parties, has finally ended. With it came the end of another source of angst: Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
About 99 percent of U.S. meat comes from industrial farms. I am by no means a vegetarian, but I propose there are significant moral, environmental and health costs associated with these contemporary methods.
Wednesday, cardinals clustered in the Vatican to select a new pope: Jorge Bergoglio from Buenos Aires.
College students are often looking to make a statement. Sometimes, such statements are political and manifest themselves through a boycott of a company or product.
The Board of Visitors recently approved updated enrollment projections through the year 2020. The plan is for the undergraduate student body to increase by about 1300 students while maintaining the current in-state to out-of-state ratio.
I recall the days when I was studying for the SAT (yes, I actually studied for the SAT). I remember memorizing random vocabulary and wondering if colleges really expected us to use those words.
A disturbing account of inaction has recently come to light. Even more disturbing is the fact that the inaction was during a life-or-death situation.
How many times have you found yourself stuck in the class-transition time crowd, moving slower than students leaving the Corner at 2 a.m.
A recent article in USA Today discusses the propensity for college newspapers to switch to a predominantly digital medium of publication.
After receiving a graded test back in class last week, I wondered how many of the students swarming the professor at the end of class to discuss their grades would complain about being marked too high.
With the budget sequestration looming Friday, threatening the nation with across-the-board spending cuts that would fail to address the long-term debt problem, political pundits abound who are castigating Congress for its inability to compromise.
