Ten years ago today, President Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom, the United States-led invasion of Afghanistan.
There is a very interesting thought experiment, widely referred to as the "Trolley Problem," which poses the question of whether to save a group of five people by diverting a trolley away from them toward a man laying in a hammock who would be killed instead.
If you didn't watch the unveiling of the new iPhone on Tuesday, we just have to one thing to say: Way to have a life.
International terrorists raise new questions to international and domestic law, an area in which I have absolutely no credentials.
One week after postal workers rallied in Support of HR 1351, Rep. Clifford Stearns has not signed on as a co-sponsor of this bill.
By now, you've probably heard about the Student Government elections scandal that I've come to call "votergate."
Travis Hornsby got a few things wrong about Social Security in his Monday column.
After reading his opinion piece on Social Security Monday, I was baffled when I saw that Travis Hornsby was a senior majoring in statistics and economics.
This is in response to Sami Main's editorial "Vegetarian Options Should Not Be Feared." While applauding Sami's address to an often overlooked issue, I'd like to take it a step further and say that vegetarian options should be revered.
Republicans: Your prayers for victory in 2012 just might have been answered.
If you have not already, some of you might start getting charged a monthly fee for debit-card usage.
Does the War on Terror create an exception for killing U.S. citizens without trial?
Why are people scared by vegetarian food choices?
Trick or Treat?
A few weeks ago, presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry called Social Security a Ponzi scheme and was labeled as a far-right extremist. While his choice of words was indelicate, Social Security is a deeply flawed system that will not exist in its current form for anyone in college right now.
The term "big government" has been loosely bandied about for several decades. Certainly it has been used to point out the over-spending by elected officials and their entities, something that now not only disturbs many of those in the higher tax bracket but also many people hurting in today's staggering economy.
Since the ‘90s, it's been a common right-wing practice to have a bake sale intended to demonstrate the inherent unfairness of using race as a factor in college admissions. White men get charged $2 for the brownies or muffins the Republicans baked to prove their point, while other races get charged a sliding scale based on the Republican protesters' perception of the severity of racial bias against different groups.
The results are in for this semester's SG elections, and needless to say, there were a few problems. Although the make-up of the Student Senate probably would be about the same regardless of the errors, the situation doesn't really support the idea that SG is a corruption-free organization.
It has been nearly a year since Tyler Clementi, former Rutgers student, committed suicide after his roommate streamed an intimate video of Clementi and another man. I remember when I first read about the tragedy in the news. I didn't understand - how did this happen? What caused Clementi so much pain that he had to end his life?
I don't know which budget Unite Party member T.J. Villamil was talking about in his letter this week, but it isn't one that was passed by the Student Senate.
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