Opinion

Opinion

Or closing doors to first year choice?

By Monique Miles | April 12, 2001

NOT MANY people fully understand the implica-tions of the First Year Housing Proposal. As a Student Council representative, I was first introduced to it last semester as SR01-7, "A resolution supporting the ad-hoc enrollment committee proposal." It seemed like a relatively amicable idea, but then I thought on it a little more, talked to other students, and now I realize that it has far greater social ramifications.

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Opinion

Bush's repeated reversals cause confusion

By Brian Cook | April 12, 2001

PRESIDENT George W. Bush, the man who brought you the words "Hispanically" and "misunderestimated," has eliminated the AIDS and race relations offices of the White House, and is getting rid of mandatory testing for salmonella in school lunch meat.

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Opinion

Tanning pasty skin proves too costly

By Pallavi Guniganti | April 12, 2001

SELF-HATING white people. You don't often hear about them, but they're out there. Forums like Reflections on Complexions tend to focus on the concerns of minorities, with the implicit understanding that white people are already taken care of.

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Opinion

Taking back the power of student opinion through activism, rallies

By Juliana Chan | April 12, 2001

THERE ARE two reasons students should participate in tonight's Take Back the Night march on the Downtown Mall.

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Opinion

Opening opportunities for diversity...

By Nick Jabbour | April 12, 2001

ALMOST all students will tell you that they enjoyed their first year at the University, regardless of where they lived.

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Opinion

Backing down in U.S.-China relations buries nation's image

By Matt West | April 12, 2001

OUR NATION'S comatose China policy is beginning to lag in strong leadership as President Bush bends over backward with his apology to China.

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Opinion

Dean must focus on faculty value

By Emily Harding | April 11, 2001

MONEY. Some call it the root of all evil, but in the College of Arts and Sciences it has become a vital issue in the quest for a new dean.

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Opinion

Study ignores activities as part of education

By Bryan Maxwell | April 11, 2001

WE SHOULD be careful not to confuse education with academics. The two are of course related, but they aren't synonymous - education includes far more than coursework.

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Opinion

Exposing Masters' hazardous history

By Seth Wood | April 11, 2001

IN A DRAMATIC fashion, Tiger Woods won the Masters on Sunday. In so doing, Woods became the first professional golfer ever to win four consecutive "major" titles - the PGA Championship, the British Open, the U.S.

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Opinion

Doubting Board's Burma decision

By Alex Rosemblat | April 11, 2001

THE UNIVERSITY'S Board of Visit-tors decided against addressing the Unocal shareholder resolution vote in its meeting last week.

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Opinion

Finding fault with task force report

By Bob Thiele | April 11, 2001

THE RECENT report submitted by the Task Force for the Department of Athletics represents a shameful last-ditch effort by which the University might treat its ailing athletic department.

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Opinion

Deifying athletes damages academics

By Laura Parcells | April 10, 2001

EVERY year as the NCAA men's basketball tournament rolls around, a nationwide frenzy erupts as children, college students and adults alike gather around their television sets in eager anticipation, wondering - as the competition slowly narrows - which of their beloved teams will make the trip to the Final Four, or even (God willing), the championship game. With the championship game and the chaos of the past few weeks still fresh on our minds, it's time to step back and ask ourselves a very important question: What the heck are we doing?

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Opinion

Advising faculty on first-year academic concerns

By Preston Lloyd | April 10, 2001

THE TIME is approaching faster than most would prefer to admit. The ISIS man is dusting off his keyboard, professors are practicing their signatures in anticipation of course action forms and students are beginning to hoard Course Offering Directories.

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Opinion

Surveillance should remain foreign concept

By Elizabeth Managan | April 10, 2001

I THOUGHT that Congress had discontinued witch hunts. I also thought that this country supports intellectual curiosity among all nationalities. So I was shocked to read that the government has decided to fight terrorism with a databank that monitors foreign students studying in the United States and will make them pay the cost.

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Opinion

Institution of smoke-free dorms should be burning issue

By Abbie Shore | April 10, 2001

I AM WRITING this editorial in response to Laura Sahramaa's March 27 column, "Snuffing out anti-smoking sentiment." I respect and appreciate all of Ms. Sahramaa's comments and am confident that a number of people share her sentiments.

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Opinion

Undressing sweatshops

By Ross Kane | April 10, 2001

THIS SUMMER while most of us will be working internships, profitable summer jobs, traveling abroad or attending summer school, other young people our age in developing countries around the world also will be working.

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Opinion

Graduate program rankings prove useful

By Laura Sahrama | April 10, 2001

LAST WEEK, with the usual accompanying level of brouhaha, the U.S. News & World Report's rankings on the best graduate schools in the country came out.

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Opinion

Poor student motives

By Katherine Martini | April 9, 2001

IN JUST over a month, stu-dents will walk down the Lawn for the last time, as graduates. And if your commencement is anything like mine in high school, I'm sure you heard the line about being "the future leaders of our country" as many times as you skipped class senior year.

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Opinion

Flawed schoolwork study

By Brian Haluska | April 9, 2001

SEVERAL months ago, members of the University administration made a veiled threat to students, suggesting that the future of Fall Break was in danger if students kept using the reading holiday as a time for vacation.

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Opinion

Silencing chant shows Council's inconsistency

By Scott Killian | April 9, 2001

THERE has always been a lot of talk about eliminating the "not gay" chant from football games because it is thought to be offensive to some students.