The lack of substantive debate on this issue is severely limiting for the future of American and worldwide democracy. The inability to restrain modern governments to respect the same old freedoms of privacy through a new medium is scary because of the potential for abuse by those in power.
Last year, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign revoked a job offer to Prof. Steven Salaita after he posted a string of anti-Israel comments on social media.
Meat is so intertwined in our culture and daily lives people become downright defensive if access to it is threatened. It’s understandable — we’ve grown up in a country where bacon is practically worshipped and burgers rival George Washington in terms of American-ness.
Our freedom as students effectively comes from the safety net that the University provides, allowing us to make mistakes and bounce back. However, many students fail to use these “safety net” services even when they would benefit from them.
While creating limited safe spaces on college campuses deserves our support, expanding the definition of a safe space to encapsulate entire campuses is a dangerous idea that would have serious implications on freedom of speech.
With student protests gripping the University of Missouri, Yale and now other schools across the country, it’s hard not to ask what lessons to draw from all the turmoil.
The reason so many conversations about the Lawn end in frustration is that it is problematic to boil applicants and residents down to one or even a few factors.
It is important for journalists to exercise discretion over what material is private and what is newsworthy — and it is understandable for individuals who are not in the public eye to expect a reporter to respect requests for privacy.
The Hyperloop’s advantages allow it to be a far more economically and energy efficient mode of transportation than the alternatives.
As the violence become less frequent in the coming weeks, both Israel and the PA must look for a more permanent solution, not one that simply delays another round of violence.
Catalonia keeps assuring the international community that, as a new country, it will be able to remain within the Eurozone. However, this isn’t necessarily true.
Students are constantly being cheated by this system because they are paying several dollars more per meal than they would be were the meal exchange option not in place.
The fact that other groups are not bound by similar restrictions is openly discriminatory. Fraternities cannot have kegs, liquor or any sort of mixed drink at a party and non-IFC fraternities and organizations can.
One of the main criticisms levied against MOOCs is the absence of any physical interaction between professors and students. This is a valid point. But we cannot really claim all of the large introductory courses at the University give students the opportunity to communicate well with their professors.
What distinguishes the events at Yale and Missouri is the severe disconnect between student protest and administrators’ responses to that protest.
I would expect people to applaud a politician’s commitment to his family, but instead Ryan received vitriol from reliably left-wing sites like Jezebel, Salon and Think Progress, and even more centrist publications like Time.
The current Israeli administration — and, arguably, every administration since Yitzhak Rabin’s prematurely curtailed administration in the mid-1990s — advocates on behalf of the former, i.e., the preeminence of Israel’s Jewish character above all other things.
The creation of an advising center in Clemons is a welcome change for an advising system that has long needed improvement.
More important than just taking on important issues, sentencing reform is the one change that can be made relatively quickly and unilaterally.
As Americans, in order to make sense of our realities, we have been telling ourselves the narrative “if you work hard, then you will succeed.” This aphorism is dishonest because it ignores the cumulative factors that result in a person’s success.
