All Entries in the "Opinion" Category
No More Obama Lovin’
In 2008, Barack Obama featured one of the most innovative and attractive campaigns ever launched. His fresh-look propaganda, proper cause, even those who were pledged to the red side of the political spectrum were showing their support. College students especially were showing great enthusiasm about Obama’s campaign and his election featured one of the highest young-voter turnouts in history. Fast-forward to 2011 and nearly four years of his run in the president’s seat and things look quite different. Students who once were avid Obama supporters are less excited for the upcoming campaign, myself included.
’Eater Opinions: What are your thoughts on the Occupy movement?
UC Irvine students weigh in on the Occupy movement.
Where There’s Smoke…
A common argument that people who oppose nationalizing health care make is that they should not hold the burden for other people’s mistakes, such as their own self-inflicted addiction to nicotine or inability to exercise and eat healthy. And although this argument is rational and valid, it does not mean that those with health problems should have to pay a significant more amount than a “healthy” person.
Sexist Survey Offends Students
I really don’t know if I’m supposed to be disgusted or amused by Coach Lynch’s antics. In case you’re lost, here’s a quick recap: A football coach in Wyoming gave his players a questionnaire every time they raised concerns or complaints about something. Seems logical so far. Some of the items asking why a student filed this “Hurt Feelings Report” included: “I am a pussy,” “I am a little bitch,” “My butt is easily hurt,” and my personal favorite, “I have woman-like hormones.” This report also needed a “girly-man signature” at the bottom, and required you to print your name next to “little sissy filing report.”
Up For Debate: Yes, there is apartheid in Israel today
The term apartheid is mostly identified with the 1948-1994 apartheid system in South Africa, where the white minority subjugated the black majority to a brutal system of oppression, stealing their land and depriving them of their basic human rights. It was a system that was condemned by the whole world. Apartheid, as defined by the 1973 International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime and Apartheid, is “inhuman acts committed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining domination by one racial group of persons over any other racial group of persons and systematically oppressing them.”
Three Wives and a Congressman
One of the most irritating boilerplates of the Republican nomination race is the idea that Newt Gingrich is unelectable because of his baggage. It’s a shame that such short-sighted vision has gained widespread acceptance in the press.
Celeb Obsessed in America
There is not doubt in my mind that if someone walked into Congress and presented the very bill that would get us out of this horrible debt crisis with enough money to spare to give everyone free ice cream for a year, the U.S. population would still not be as engaged as they are in Kim Kardashian’s life.
NBA Gets Locked Out
“Love the game no matter what.” This is the slogan that the Jordan brand has decided to go with for its latest ad campaign. Its new commercials depict a trio of superstars balling it up in a variety of locales — at a local pickup game, a retirement home and even a park in Beijing.
Don’t Pepper Spray Me
Fueled by an Occupy Davis rally Tuesday, Nov. 15 that drew approximately 2,000 protesters, students at UC Davis shifted their focus to occupying campus buildings. After being foisted out of their one-night stint in Mrak Hall, UCD protesters regrouped Thursday night, setting up camp in the Quad in protest of the 81 percent four-year fee hike. The news of what happened next has been splashed across front pages, covered by national news outlets, editorialized on our Facebook newsfeeds, retweeted, reblogged and viewed on YouTube millions of times.
Occupy Yourself
“We are the 99 percent,” they cry — the mother of four, the husband working multiple jobs, the college grad crippled in debt. They cry of financial hardship, of how they live from paycheck to paycheck, barely scrapping out a living of long hours and meager wages. They cry of injustice, how the richest 1 percent of America is currently in possession of approximately 40 percent of the nation’s collective wealth — an influence that they then allegedly abuse and exploit to their benefit.
