Health treatment disparities cause hospitals that treat disadvantaged people to be far more likely to readmit patients within the post-discharge 30 day period, as people who receive lower quality treatment are naturally more likely to experience illness more frequently.
Education is a process, and it should be treated as such. There will always be numerous factors in play when talking about a student’s academic performance and intellectual development.
Current high school curricula fail to adequately incorporate this critical component of U.S history into class discourse, which is a disservice to students and certainly to the hundreds of thousands of individuals whose lives were forever altered by United States foreign policy in Latin America.
With a three-party election involving a party (the NDP) whose views could have a major impact on our relations with Canada less than a week away, this election warrants more attention than it is currently receiving.
Our existing methods of projecting power abroad to achieve the policy results we want — international sanctions, military intervention when in our interests and advocacy of democratic capitalism — are failing.
The unfortunate truth is there is no quick fix to this problem. Implying there is — and that politicians are simply being bribed into not supporting it — obscures the complexity behind the issue. . .
The argument that professors play no role in our lives other than an educational one is problematic because it treats education as something that only occurs within the confines of the classroom. It is the responsibility of professors to acknowledge and engage with the experiences of their students both inside and outside the classroom.
While polls might not be accurate enough to predict a winner this early on in the race, they can create losers and end up turning the race into a media grabbing circus. Candidates can easily be forced out of the race as their polling numbers drop and public confidence in them vanishes.
In the same vein as the University's veneration of Thomas Jefferson, our observance and laudation of Columbus and his holiday testifies to the majority culture's disregard for the values and experiences of various minority groups.
Some students neglect to study abroad because they fear the monetary cost outweighs the benefits however this would be an ignorant ideology. The truth is the cost of studying abroad is one of the benefits.
The Halloween costume debate fits into the larger context of a resurging wave of political correctness sweeping across American colleges, a wave indicative of cognitive distortion problems present in our collegiate generation.
The use of a predictive analytics system would save money, make course enrollment more efficient and, most importantly, lead to more students getting into the classes they want.
Is the media creating a sensationalist and negative news bias, or are they just responding to the public’s statistical preference of bad news over good?
Removing test standards is a plausible means to encourage a diversified applicant pool.
Few people have stopped to consider that this outrage is made possible because we live in a country where a business tycoon can purchase control of a vital drug and do what he pleases with it.
Most Americans, regardless of their political orientation, support some type of gun reform. For instance, 85 percent of Americans favor background checks for private and gun show sales, while 80 percent of Americans agree the mentally ill should not be able to purchase firearms.
Defenders of the liberal arts should oppose and look down on courses such as “Game of Thrones” because they dilute the value of a rigorous liberal arts education.
Ethical reasoning courses demand students understand both morality and reason.
The usage of “black” instead of “Black” is indicative of the media bias chaining my race to the perpetuated negative aspects of the color.
Winning is easier said than done, but until our football team improves, the University should use short-term alternatives to improve the social atmosphere rather than charging students for tickets.
