Archive for November 26th, 2007
Students for Sale (To Highest Bidder)
‘Students for sale!’ yells the loan officer. ‘Got another one for $45,000. Says here she’s going to UC Berkeley.’ The loan coordinator walks in. ‘I just got a new one here at CSU Long Beach for $17,000. He says he’s unsure what he wants to do after graduation.’ Laughter breaks out. ‘So how’s he going [...]
Genetics Must Be Debated
On Oct. 14, 2007, Dr. James Watson, father of modern genetics and Nobel Prize recipient, stated in an interview with Britain’s Sunday Times that he was ‘inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa’ because ‘all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours
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Why Ron Paul? Let Me Count the Ways
I recently registered as a Republican for the first time and cringed when I did. It isn’t that I hate Republicans or what they say or stand for, but the idea of identifying myself with a group that has, for 10 years, eroded and compromised the principles that they espouse regularly on right-wing news outlets [...]
Clinton Is More Than Just a Woman
‘President Hillary Clinton:’ Get used to hearing that, at least if the presidential election were held today. At the Nov. 15 Democratic debate, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton showed that she could take on the ‘boys’ after stumbling in the previous debate three weeks ago.
The fireworks were unleashed at the very beginning when Senator Barack Obama [...]
Letters To The Editor
Why Would Students Give Up Voting?
My name is Cody Brown and I hail from New York University. I was a student in the class you mentioned ['Why Students Choose Tuition Over Voting,' Nov. 19] and the one who initially proposed the survey about whether you would trade your vote for tuition money.
I thought your editorial [...]
