Opinion

Opinion

Freedom not on the march

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | September 13, 2005

THE ANNIVERSARY of the Sept. 11 terror attacks inspired a number of memorials and tributes in remembrance of the dead, perhaps none so tacky as the Pentagon's "Freedom Walk," which culminated in an "America Supports You" concert starring country music sensation Clint Black and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The cringe-inducing Freedom Walk was possibly our government's worst perversion of the word "freedom" since they gave us Freedom Fries.

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Opinion

New Orleans: This is our America

By Katie Cristol | September 13, 2005

The words come in a drumbeat:Congressman John Lewis of Georgia, in a heartbroken opinion editorial, laments that "I've cried a lot of tears the past few days as I watched television -- to see somebody lying dead outside the convention center.

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Build 'New' Orleans somewhere else

By Herb Ladley | September 13, 2005

AFTER Hurricane Katrina, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R.-Ill., was asked if he thought flooded parts of New Orleans should be rebuilt.

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Illuminating inequalities

By Adam Keith | September 12, 2005

WHILE Hurricane Katrina was a human tragedy of immeasurable proportions, in its aftermath it displayed the inhuman inequalities that put wide segments of the American public in desperate economic conditions.

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Covering all sides of the story

By Lisa Fleisher | September 12, 2005

MANY YOUNG journalists I know get into the business in part because they want to deliver truth to society.

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Opinion

Evaluating facts, not feelings

By Noah Peters | September 12, 2005

THE LONG-STANDING debate over the single sanction has taken a new turn with the decision of the Honor Committee to limit the mandate of the ad hoc Committee for the Investigation of the Single Sanction to investigating the single sanction itself.

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Opinion

Finding a rational sanction

By Cari Lynn Hennessey | September 9, 2005

WELCOME to another year of single sanction debate, in which reforms will be proposed, and the Honor Committee will respond by vaguely promising to involve the community in a discussion about the meaning of honor at the University.

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Opinion

Preventing a crisis

By Allan Cruickshanks | September 9, 2005

KASHMIR. It's not just a Led Zeppelin song, its also a region of the Indian sub-continent that is one of the most widely disputed and high-tension flashpoints on the globe.

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Opinion

Housing trouble

By Sophia Brumby | September 9, 2005

WHILE FIRST years have only been living on Grounds for about three weeks, the pressure to start considering accommodation for next year has begun.

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Opinion

What the Hill?

By Sina Kian | September 8, 2005

OUR PROFESSORS as well as our other employees are underpaid in comparison to their colleagues in different states.

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A dining hall for all

By Todd Rosenbaum | September 8, 2005

MEAL PLAN options present a simple annoyance for upperclassmen. Although it is mandatory that first-year students purchase meal plans, after then it is largely dependent on one's specific living situation as to whether he or she will choose to do so or not.

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Opinion

Rising above rhetoric

By Whitney Blake | September 7, 2005

IN THE wake of Hurricane Katrina, some individuals in the public spotlight have used the disaster to advance a political agenda or play the race card in an inappropriate manner.

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Opinion

Living in an age of American terror

By Zack Fields | September 7, 2005

AS CITIZENS of a democracy we have a moral responsibility for the actions of a government over whose actions we have indirect control.

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Opinion

Respecting Rehnquist

By Herb Ladley | September 6, 2005

CAUGHT up in the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, the nation has had little time to mourn the loss of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who died of thyroid cancer Saturday night.

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Opinion

War of the states

By Eric Wang | September 6, 2005

EVEN as Iraqis fight over federalism and whether to have a decentralized national government, Americans have been watching our own regional jockeying unfurl here at home.

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Politics in the classroom

By Noah Peters | September 5, 2005

IT IS ANOTHER depressing indication of the ubiquity of partisan politics that recent studies have found that liberals are heavily overrepresented in academia.

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Opinion

Welcoming displaced students

By Adam Keith | September 5, 2005

WHILE New Orleans lies under a column of water and much of costal Mississippi has been blown to rubble, students of the University have a chance to make a significant contribution to helping people put their lives together after the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina.Although most of the attention in the aftermath of Katrina has been deservedly focused on the events occurring in New Orleans and Mississippi, at the same time hundreds of thousands of evacuated residents, including 100,000 students from colleges in the affected regions have been stranded as their homes and livelihoods have been washed away in the deluge of water. In response to this crisis, the University has agreed to allow as many as hundreds of students from affected colleges to continue their education here while their schools rebuild.

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Opinion

Asking all the right questions

By Lisa Fleisher | September 5, 2005

FORMER New York Times editor Howell Raines is often linked to a phrase used to describe the newsroom's approach to a big story: "flood the zone." What that means, in terms of coverage, is that certain stories deemed important enough are assigned to several of the best reporters to not only find out everything there is to know about the current situation, but also to deepen the reader's understanding of the issue -- to understand the why and the history. If it has really been "one hell of a week" at the University, as Editor-in-Chief Pat Harvey wrote to me in an e-mail, I wouldn't have known it from reading the news section.

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Opinion

Awakening the pro-choice majority

By Katie Cristol | September 5, 2005

JOHN ROBERTS' Senate hearings begin tomorrow. The hearings of a nominee to replace Chief Justice William Rehnquist will be soon to follow.

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Opinion

Sanctioning hate

By AJ Kornblith | September 2, 2005

FIRST YEARS had a bleak introduction to race relations at the University this past week, with a slew of racially charged incidents filling the front pages of this and other news publications.