"THAT GIRL over there is hot." "Yeah, but she is totally wasted." "Even better." Sadly, this dialogue is not far from conversations that go on all the time on college campuses, city bars and pretty much everywhere where people gather to drink.
NO, THAT headlinewas not written by a five-year-old. Unfortunately is an exampleof what is now known as text-speak.
FOR MANY years, the University has offered students the opportunity to apply for the first-year residence hall of their choice.
The Michael Richards rant a couple of weeks ago shocked the nation and provided one of the most heinous and high-profile displays of racism in the recent history of American culture.
IMAGINE losing your home and possessions, having to flee your home and then, if you were able to return at all, having to live in a trailer in your front yard.
THE JUSTICE Department currently spends too muchtime acting as a subordinate to the Bush administration and not enough time truly dispensing justice.
ALMOST two weeks ago, the world was shocked to learn that former "Seinfeld" star Michael Richards repeatedly used a racial slur while reacting to two black men who were heckling him during a stand-up show.
STEPHEN Parsley, in his Nov. 29 column titled "Shrouding sexism behind multiculturalism," argues that "the battle over the veil is one of the key issues that will determine the future of Islam and the West." He goes on to suggest a ban on the veil in public schools and government places.
"SAFERIDE'S purpose is to provide a safe passage for students who would otherwise have to walk alone at night," claims SafeRide's Web site.
WHEN THINKINGabout the war against radical Islam, the veils worn by some Muslim women probably are not the first thing to come to mind.
BEFORE people can give adequate thanks, they're wanting more. There's a certain festive irony in the juxtaposition of two holidays with exactly contradictory philosophies.
AS WE RETURNED from our Thanksgiving break, the pro-single sanction camp has given us yet another frightening look at their world, this time in the form of a column by Josh Hess ("Don't surrender the single sanction," Nov.
THE COLLEGE student had a yellow sticky note on his back. It had been patted there by a friend, or possibly an enemy, as a joke.
LOOKING around Grounds it is clear that the University is alive with conservative traditions. Every semester eager students flock to the University in droves.
ALONG with a Democratic victory in the Houseand Senate,the November elections also enacted a host of controversial ballot referendums.
IN THE honor system's 160 year history, no generation of University students has ever said it could no longer meet the high standard set by the single sanction.
THEY'RE called invisible children. They run without shoes -- terrified, tired and often alone -- every evening at dusk as the sky turns bloody red to Gulu, the main town located near the Sudanese border in Northern Uganda.
RUSHING the court is pointless. Plain and simple. As the men's basketball game against Arizona came to a close last week, the excitement built as people started to realize that we had a fighting chance to with the game and upset the number 10 team in the country.
IN 1966, H.B. Stewart referred to the sea as man's "last great relativelyuntapped resource on earth." This ever-declining resource will soon disappear, however, if over-fishing and other human impacts continue at their current pace.
REMEMBER back in 2003, when Americans learned about the horrible events that transpired at the Abu Ghraib prison facility in Iraq?
