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Politics and the pledge

YET ANOTHER federal judge has struck down the Pledge of Allegiance as unconstitutional. U.S. Judge Lawrence Karlton's decision from last week has once again become the occasion for condemnations and outrage leaders across the political spectrum.


Opinion

Building links to heritage

THE ULTIMATE endeavor at this University is without a doubt to be more like Thomas Jefferson. From student to professor to administrator, all hear and echo the cry "What would Mr. Jefferson do?" Sure enough, this is one of the central tenets of the current debate on the University's architectural plan and the effort by many of the Architecture School's faculty to have it reanalyzed.


Opinion

We failed the fallen

ON THE previous three anniversaries of Sept. 11, 2001, we claimed to honor the victims through a mix of memory, resolve and a commitment to make sure that this never happened again.


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Lessons from Innes

"I CONSIDER a lecture to be a success if I'm asked so many questions that I can't finish." Many students of the late Stephen Innes will recognize these words to be his.


Opinion

The interdisciplinary option

HAVING trouble choosing a major? Perhaps, like many other University students, you've bounced a lot of ideas around: first psychology, then English and maybe you're experimenting in art history while you desperately try to figure out what to fill in on your major declaration form due this spring.


Opinion

Katrina facts

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.


Opinion

Freedom not on the march

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.


Opinion

New Orleans: This is our America

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.


Opinion

Illuminating inequalities

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.


Opinion

Evaluating facts, not feelings

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.


Opinion

Finding a rational sanction

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.


Opinion

Preventing a crisis

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.


Opinion

Housing trouble

WHILE FIRST years have only been living on Grounds for about three weeks, the pressure to start considering accommodation for next year has begun.

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Latest Podcast

The Organization of Young Filipino Americans is one of many cultural Contracted Independent Organizations at the University, and their mission is to create a supportive community for Filipino students. Danella Romera, the current president of OYFA and fourth-year College student, discusses the importance of OYFA as a cultural organization and how OYFA plans for this year’s Culturefest, an annual multicultural showcase. 

Listen to the episode here.