All Entries in the "Opinion" Category
Mental Health Mentality
Your mental health is more important than your GPA. It’s an adage on the lips of every university student, especially when finals rear their heads. During finals week, it seems like those of us who can be bothered to look up from our books make it a point to form this security blanket, a safety [...]
The Advantages of Athletics
Every morning I wake up to the same loud ringing of my alarm clock, notifying me that it is 4:40 a.m. and time to get up for practice. I always lie there looking at my ceiling and consider staying in my warm bed, but then I think of each of my teammate’s faces, and know [...]
Four Corners: Steubenville
By Belester Bentiez, Ryan M. Cady, Sarah S. Menendez and Logan Payne Staff Writers Logan Payne: The most interesting part is the rape culture within that city and how the rape was treated and how much outrage was sparked. Just thinking about the dissenters and the supporters and how people were saying like, this girl [...]
Four Corners: A New Mascot
Four Corners: This week in the newsroom, we decided to ponder what course of action we would take in the event that Peter the Anteater was kidnapped. The focus of our discussion gravitated towards what mascot we would adopt as Peter’s replacement. Ian Massey: I’m going to throw out the honey badger. It’s just as [...]
Unsustainable: The Energy Problem
Not money, not sex, but rather energy, is what makes the world go round — literally and figuratively. The ever-increasing sophistication in our ability to manipulate energy is primarily responsible for the rapid development of our society, and should we wish to continue such progress, it is imperative that we choose wisely before taking the [...]
Winter Quarter in Review
Barring finals next week, winter quarter has finally come to an end, and we are now one quarter closer to finishing the 2012-13 academic school year. Of course, we shouldn’t strictly look at this quarter as a day-by-day, gotta-get-through-class progression. There are many notable events that occurred this quarter and deserve not just recognition, [...]
The Fight Isn’t Over
In a country whose history has been built on racial segregation, disenfranchisement of minorities and immoral treatment of individual human rights, we are still questioning whether legislation is needed to prevent another outbreak of discouraging African Americans from using their voting privileges. The Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments from both sides about the Voting [...]
Adele and the Academy
There’s a fire starting in Adele’s heart, and instead of bringing her out of the dark, it’s taking her to a gym. The 24-year-old singer has been famously quoted about her view on her own weight. During many interviews, she states that she is happy with her weight and isn’t going to allow society’s image [...]
A Plea by an Armenian Student and Global Citizen
The international legal definition of the crime of genocide is the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” with acts that accompany that intent. As I read this online, I wondered about how the definition of genocide and ethnic cleansing is being debated right here on campus [...]
Obtuse, Not Transparent
“I recognize that in our democracy, no one should just take my word that we’re doing things the right way,” Obama stated in his State of the Union address a couple weeks ago. And then he promised us, for like the millionth time, that his administration would be “even more transparent to the American people [...]
