LAST THURSDAY I had the opportunity to attend a welcome reception in a Pavilion hosted by the HUES Leadership Network for Women of Color.
THIS past weekend marked the fourth anniversary of Sept. 11. Many commentators have compared our response to that tragedy with the recent reaction to Hurricane Katrina.
BECAUSE of the rapid activist response to racial slurs and graffiti, it is clear that the University community will not tolerate this sort of bigotry.
THE ANNIVERSARY of the Sept. 11 terror attacks inspired a number of memorials and tributes in remembrance of the dead, perhaps none so tacky as the Pentagon's "Freedom Walk," which culminated in an "America Supports You" concert starring country music sensation Clint Black and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The cringe-inducing Freedom Walk was possibly our government's worst perversion of the word "freedom" since they gave us Freedom Fries.
The words come in a drumbeat:Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, in a heartbroken opinion editorial, laments that "I've cried a lot of tears the past few days as I watched television -- to see somebody lying dead outside the convention center.
AFTER Hurricane Katrina, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R.-Ill., was asked if he thought flooded parts of New Orleans should be rebuilt.
WHILE Hurricane Katrina was a human tragedy of immeasurable proportions, in its aftermath it displayed the inhuman inequalities that put wide segments of the American public in desperate economic conditions.
MANY YOUNG journalists I know get into the business in part because they want to deliver truth to society.
THE LONG-STANDING debate over the single sanction has taken a new turn with the decision of the Honor Committee to limit the mandate of the ad hoc Committee for the Investigation of the Single Sanction to investigating the single sanction itself.
WELCOME to another year of single sanction debate, in which reforms will be proposed, and the Honor Committee will respond by vaguely promising to involve the community in a discussion about the meaning of honor at the University.
KASHMIR. It's not just a Led Zeppelin song, its also a region of the Indian sub-continent that is one of the most widely disputed and high-tension flashpoints on the globe.
WHILE FIRST years have only been living on Grounds for about three weeks, the pressure to start considering accommodation for next year has begun.
OUR PROFESSORS as well as our other employees are underpaid in comparison to their colleagues in different states.
MEAL PLAN options present a simple annoyance for upperclassmen. Although it is mandatory that first-year students purchase meal plans, after then it is largely dependent on one's specific living situation as to whether he or she will choose to do so or not.
IN THE wake of Hurricane Katrina, some individuals in the public spotlight have used the disaster to advance a political agenda or play the race card in an inappropriate manner.
AS CITIZENS of a democracy we have a moral responsibility for the actions of a government over whose actions we have indirect control.
CAUGHT up in the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, the nation has had little time to mourn the loss of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who died of thyroid cancer Saturday night.
EVEN as Iraqis fight over federalism and whether to have a decentralized national government, Americans have been watching our own regional jockeying unfurl here at home.
IT IS ANOTHER depressing indication of the ubiquity of partisan politics that recent studies have found that liberals are heavily overrepresented in academia.
WHILE New Orleans lies under a column of water and much of costal Mississippi has been blown to rubble, students of the University have a chance to make a significant contribution to helping people put their lives together after the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina.Although most of the attention in the aftermath of Katrina has been deservedly focused on the events occurring in New Orleans and Mississippi, at the same time hundreds of thousands of evacuated residents, including 100,000 students from colleges in the affected regions have been stranded as their homes and livelihoods have been washed away in the deluge of water. In response to this crisis, the University has agreed to allow as many as hundreds of students from affected colleges to continue their education here while their schools rebuild.
