Opinion

Opinion

Time to take action on climate change

By Jackie Kruszewski and Gabe Silver | February 27, 2007

THE RECENT report in this newspaper on the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment highlighted the inadequate response from our own institution.It's high time that the University community was made aware of President Casteen's inaction on environmental and energy policy.From academic rivals like UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Pennsylvania to state schools with a much larger student bodies like the University of Florida, the University is being outdone. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the most authoritative and conservative body investigating human-caused climate change, recently reported with scientific certainty that human activities are warming the climate, driving shifts towards more erratic and severe weather events and sea level rise.

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Opinion

Rethinking the meaning of honor

By Erald Kolasi | February 26, 2007

THE HONOR system at the University has been the subject of much debate and controversy recently, as well it should be, given an illustrious history that no longer stands up to reality.

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Putting honor in the spotlight

By Marta Cook | February 26, 2007

FOR ANYONE with the perseverance to follow the endless single sanction debate, it quickly becomes obvious that discerning the right or wrong answer to the problem is as impossible as getting pro-choice and pro-life advocates to agree on when life begins.

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Opinion

Beyond the University bubble

By Jade Craig | February 26, 2007

Afew weeks ago, I returned to the University for the first time since I graduated last May. As a student, many of us described the University as a "bubble,"and I will admit that it was my bubble.

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Opinion

Scolding London on Iraq

By Josh Levy | February 26, 2007

NEVER HAS so much for so many depended on the stupidity of so few. With apologies to Winston Churchill, there is no other way to describe the British government's latest blunder.

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Elementary languages

By Ashlee Wilkins | February 23, 2007

Countries have already begun establishing foreign language requirements for their elementary school children.

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Speaking freely about Islam

By Alexander R. Cohen | February 23, 2007

Should University students be free to say things that offend Islam? The College Republican club at San Francisco State University may face sanctions from SFSU and its student government on charges of incivility, attempting to incite violence, and attempting to create a hostile environment.

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More reporting, not more sanctions

By Jason Shore | February 23, 2007

Monday night, Sam Leven and Rachel Carr represented Hoos against Single Sanction to justify their proposal for a multi-sanction revision to the honor system, which appears as referendum four on the ballot this week.

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Where there's $moke...

By Lindsay Huggins | February 23, 2007

When one thinks about the tobacco industry, lawsuits and those scary "Truth" ads usually come to mind.

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A Tale of Two Countries

By Sam Shirazi | February 23, 2007

Overshadowed by the increasingly dire situation in Iraq, the conflict in the East African nation of Somalia has quietly provided the United States with perhaps its greatest success in the War on Terror.

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Eleventh-hour community concern

By AJ Aronstein | February 22, 2007

THE FLYERS are up. The chalk is down. The writing is on the wall. The Honor Committee has one of the longest "lame duck" periods of any organization on Grounds: nearly a month.

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Opinion

Hope for the Gulf Coast

By Robby Colby | February 22, 2007

THIS WEEK, the city of New Orleans celebrated Mardi Gras for the second time since being devastated by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005.

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Honorable and responsible reform

By Sam Leven | February 22, 2007

THIS WEEK, students at the University will get the opportunity to make their first substantive vote on sanction reform in five years.

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Peace with honor

By Alec Solotorovsky | February 22, 2007

IRAQ IS looking a lot like Vietnam these days and not just because Americans are dying there for a cause the locals don't believe in, sapping our moral standing and military might to the benefit of our enemies in the region and the consternation of our allies around the world.

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A reasonable approach to proliferation

By Prashanth Parameswaran | February 21, 2007

THE RECENT six-party deal on North Korea was greeted with unnerving criticism from conservatives and a gleeful "I told you so" from liberals.

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Selling sensationalism

By Greg Crapanzano | February 21, 2007

BRITNEY Spears's haircut, no matter how extravagant, is not newsworthy. News delivers pertinent information about recent events to a large audience so that as a society, people can be more informed about the events that affect them.

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When banks compete, you lose

By Allan Cruickshanks | February 21, 2007

DEMOCRATIC Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) reaffirmed his party's complete lack of economic sense last week with a proposal requiring banks to bid for government-backed student loans.

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Little things sometimes most important

By John Irby | February 21, 2007

PEOPLE CAN be very unkind. It is common late in grade school or in the middle-school years for youngsters to tease each other using condescending words or phrases tied to physical or mental real or perceived short-comings.

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Opinion

Beware of peanut butter pathogens

By Andrea Arango | February 20, 2007

THINGS are not quite right in Neverland. A salmonella outbreak that has been growing since August and now has nearly 300 cases was recently linked to peanut butter, specifically the Peter Pan and Great Value brands made by ConAgra in their Georgia plant (noted by a product code on the lid beginning with "2111.") A salmonella outbreak isn't that strange.

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Combatting complacency

By Sina Kian | February 20, 2007

I REMEMBER when I first learned about the Holocaust, I wasn't told that millions of people were murdered -- I was told that millions died in camps, which seemed odd.