TWO weeks ago, I wrote a column expressing my distaste for California proposition 8, a measure intended to amend the California State Constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman, thereby invalidating a California Supreme Court decision to allow marriage between same-sex couples.
LET THIS be a newsflash to University students: Your vote does count.
WELCOME back, John McCain. After months of vigorous campaigning, tainted most notably by the unconscionable selection of Sarah Palin as a vice presidential nominee and by a vitriolic series of attack ads on Barack Obama, the real John McCain made a stunning and unexpected reappearance late Tuesday night.
LAST WEEK, Student Council passed a resolution supporting the creation of the community Garden Project proposed by the Environmental Sustainability Committee.
OCTOBER is always a hectic month for upperclassmen attempting to figure out the following year?s housing arrangements.
LAST WEEK, a member of our football team appeared in court for charges of breaking and entering and grand larceny.
THE NAMES ?Chernobyl? and ?Three Mile Island? undoubtedly surface when one mentions the idea of nuclear power, and coupled with the idea of radioactive waste they can raise immediate safety concerns about the process.
PREDICTING anything about Barack Obama is a dangerous business. The media had written his political obituary several times; yet, his remarkable story lives on, as he was elected president this week.
IMAGINE you are making a paltry income doing some relatively menial job.
THE OPENING scene of West Side Story is so familiar: a series of aerial shots of New York City, an organized jumble of streets, buildings and cars.
ALL I know, as Will Rogers used to say, is what I read in the papers.
LAST THURSDAY, Students for Environmental Action (SEA) put on its first-ever flash mob.
?FEMINISM? has become a bit of a dirty word amongst the members of my generation.
There are many reasons I will not be voting for John McCain. His choice of running mate, views on the economy and health care plan are among them.
WE?RE A few weeks into the Free Newspaper Project?s trial run, and a couple observations should be made.
BY NOW we are all completely sick of this election. Between the 24 hour nonstop news cycle, the incessant television and radio ads, and yes, even the opinion columns, most of us have heard so much about John McCain and Barack Obama that our heads are ready to explode.
WE?RE TIRED. Some of you have been invested in this election for over a year.
A DEMOCRATIC wave is sweeping the country, and many Democrats are hopeful they will secure 60 seats next Tuesday to make the Senate filibuster-proof.
EIGHT years ago, our country witnessed an unprecedented and bizarre election that left disillusioned Americans scrambling to figure out which aspect of our election process needed to be changed first.
AS COLLEGE-aged citizens, we should all be familiar with these words from the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution: ?The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State ...? A recent initiative by Student Council, aimed at persuading the University to allow absences from class on Election Day to make it easier for students to vote, raises the question of how far we should go to protect that right.
