BATSUKH: Founder’s Day must not be forgotten
By Bilge Batsukh | August 9, 2019Eliminating Jefferson's birthday as a holiday is nothing more than virtue signaling.
Eliminating Jefferson's birthday as a holiday is nothing more than virtue signaling.
The Hyde Amendment has permitted decades of inequity and has discriminated against working class people who do not have or cannot afford access to reproductive healthcare on their own.
Education should be seen as bipartisan, as the right to pursue an education is crucial to developing a better global economy, ensuring social equality and increasing wages for millions.
The affirmative action policies employed by many of these colleges in fact have a destructive, oft-overlooked countereffect when it comes to a certain minority demographic: Asian-Americans.
Joe Biden is a figure of the past and he does not hold the vision nor the values that today’s party is looking for in a presidential candidate.
Several white officers demonstrated blatant disrespect and excessive brutality to an all black family, and that should not be downplayed.
The callous mismanagement of life-and-death conditions for inmates should be the source of far greater public outcry and pushes for change.
Pride month serves as a time to celebrate love and the LGBTQ+ community, but it also serves as an important time to highlight the problems impacting LGBTQ+ people.
The rise of social media echo-chambers has created a culture in which students are afraid to stand apart from the mob in their day-to-day lives.
Young adulthood is a time to explore and challenge yourself, and there is no other place better than a university to do so.
With our new president finishing his first year and releasing a strategic plan for the next decade, we have an opportunity to shape the University for the next generation of students.
The implementation of early decision is just another failure of the University to accommodate low-income students.
If implemented properly and in conjunction with programs specifically targeting low-income students, the early decision process could actually increase the proportion of these individuals admitted.
The electoral college system only serves as an impediment to democracy by disenfranchising voters and improperly representing the true opinions of the country.
In consideration of the environmental implications of each book, the University should no longer order, carry or sell the un-recycled exam booklets.
Since the election of Donald Trump, a new faction within the conservative movement has spoken out about the failure of classical liberalism in America.
Diverse creators are important in both ensuring the quality of minority representation and making the elite circles of our world more diverse and welcoming.
Securing the southern border remains one of the most effective and necessary policies that the federal government must implement.
While religious liberty is a foremost right for the American people, it does not serve as an effective justification for the discrimination of others.
These abortion bans highlight greater issues with our democratic system, where legislators are ignoring the opinions of their constituents and precedent laid out by the Supreme Court.