I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. Schools from the University of Hawaii to Columbia University have seen controversy flair up over cartoons deemed racist over the last few years.
BEING a progressive in George Bush's America is a daily heartbreak. Caring about social justice, responsible foreign policy, and good government in Tom DeLay and Bill Frist's America means waking up to newspaper headlines each morning to find something else in which you believe under vicious attack.
"ON MY honor as a student, I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment or exam." This simple pledge should be quite familiar to all students, if for no other reason than the fact that it is posted in nearly every academic room in the University.
IMAGINE a single mother working long hours each week at a university, trying to feed her family but making only the minimum wage.
THE ONION once wrote a column in which it reported that certain faith-based organizations were questioning the "theory of gravity," instead favoring a new theory of Intelligent Falling -- that things are pushed down, not by gravitational force per se, but by the invisible hand of a higher intelligence.
THE UNIVERSITY just concluded its "Flu Fest" yesterday, but disease experts worldwide are in anything but a partying mood.
DESPITE arguments otherwise, a Supreme Court nominee is the closest our country gets to an appointed politician, and political influence should play a crucial role in a confirmation vote among qualifications and a record by which to judge the nominee.
LAST WEEK, U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hasert, R-Ill., proposed further slashing of funding for Head Start, the early education initiative widely proclaimed to be one of the federal government's most successful programs.
AS LIVING Wage Week at the University comes to a close, important concerns remain about the abilities of a living wage to put an end to the systemic causes of poverty.
LAST TUESDAY marked a milestone for Iraqi democracy with an official announcement that the nation's constitution had been adopted by a fair majority.
FACING widespread criticism and playing a complex blame game following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was forced to reevaluate its disaster response system, and, to be sure, made a great deal of progress before having to cope with Hurricanes Rita and Wilma.
THE BUZZ inside the Beltway has increased to a discordant roar following the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the U.S.
DEAR FRIEND, my name is Hassan Ibn Farouk, a merchant in Dubai. I have been diagnosed with esophageal cancer and I have only a few months to live.
LAST WEEK I wrote that working-class citizens need to fight back in today's environment of class war.
WHEN TIM Kaine arrives on Grounds for a "Cavs for Kaine" get-out-the-vote rally tomorrow, his Wahoo well-wishers will have more reason than ever to hold both their signs and their heads high. You see, those of us political junkies who have followed Virginia politics since the 2005 gubernatorial race's starting gun in late 2001 didn't count on any surprises this fall.
IN 2003, the Census Bureau announced that Hispanic-Americans outnumbered African-Americans for the first time.
MUCH OF our country's constitutional, political and social framework has been couched in the work of Enlightenment thinkers, who provided a language of rights indispensable to American democracy -- rights such as equality of opportunity.
WHAT EXATLY does it mean to be honorable? Proponents of the non-toleration clause would have you believe that to be honorable you must report any and all possible honor code violations immediately, no matter what the circumstances or the potential consequences.
UNIVERSITIES have struggled to deal with offensive and discriminatory speech for decades, but new technology is creating new challenges as private comments become public on the World Wide Web.
THE WITHDRAWAL of Harriet Miers' nomination to the Supreme Court threatens the country with a grinding political deadlock.
