Opinion

Opinion

Deifying athletes damages academics

By Laura Parcells | April 10, 2001

EVERY year as the NCAA men's basketball tournament rolls around, a nationwide frenzy erupts as children, college students and adults alike gather around their television sets in eager anticipation, wondering - as the competition slowly narrows - which of their beloved teams will make the trip to the Final Four, or even (God willing), the championship game. With the championship game and the chaos of the past few weeks still fresh on our minds, it's time to step back and ask ourselves a very important question: What the heck are we doing?

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Opinion

Advising faculty on first-year academic concerns

By Preston Lloyd | April 10, 2001

THE TIME is approaching faster than most would prefer to admit. The ISIS man is dusting off his keyboard, professors are practicing their signatures in anticipation of course action forms and students are beginning to hoard Course Offering Directories.

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Opinion

Surveillance should remain foreign concept

By Elizabeth Managan | April 10, 2001

I THOUGHT that Congress had discontinued witch hunts. I also thought that this country supports intellectual curiosity among all nationalities. So I was shocked to read that the government has decided to fight terrorism with a databank that monitors foreign students studying in the United States and will make them pay the cost.

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Opinion

Institution of smoke-free dorms should be burning issue

By Abbie Shore | April 10, 2001

I AM WRITING this editorial in response to Laura Sahramaa's March 27 column, "Snuffing out anti-smoking sentiment." I respect and appreciate all of Ms. Sahramaa's comments and am confident that a number of people share her sentiments.

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Opinion

Undressing sweatshops

By Ross Kane | April 10, 2001

THIS SUMMER while most of us will be working internships, profitable summer jobs, traveling abroad or attending summer school, other young people our age in developing countries around the world also will be working.

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Opinion

Graduate program rankings prove useful

By Laura Sahrama | April 10, 2001

LAST WEEK, with the usual accompanying level of brouhaha, the U.S. News & World Report's rankings on the best graduate schools in the country came out.

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Opinion

Poor student motives

By Katherine Martini | April 9, 2001

IN JUST over a month, stu-dents will walk down the Lawn for the last time, as graduates. And if your commencement is anything like mine in high school, I'm sure you heard the line about being "the future leaders of our country" as many times as you skipped class senior year.

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Opinion

Flawed schoolwork study

By Brian Haluska | April 9, 2001

SEVERAL months ago, members of the University administration made a veiled threat to students, suggesting that the future of Fall Break was in danger if students kept using the reading holiday as a time for vacation.

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Opinion

Silencing chant shows Council's inconsistency

By Scott Killian | April 9, 2001

THERE has always been a lot of talk about eliminating the "not gay" chant from football games because it is thought to be offensive to some students.

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Opinion

Editorial decision compromised by running Horowitz's irrelevant opinion piece

By Brent Garland | April 9, 2001

AS I BELIEVE I have mentioned in a previous column, one of the things I like to do least as an ombudsman is to bring up a problem without offering a solution, a correction or, at minimum, some potential direction for change.

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Opinion

Reflections On Complexions only skin deep

By Jeffrey Eisenberg | April 9, 2001

REFLECTIONS On Complexions III, a race relations forum that was held Friday night, was a failure.

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Opinion

Backing black women's support system

By Ayele Hunt | April 9, 2001

I AM NOT a womanist nor am I a feminist. There is nothing wrong with either faction of thought. I am a black woman, and as a black woman, the current state of black women concerns me.

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Opinion

Quest for perfection triggers eating disorders

By Megan Moyer | April 6, 2001

STARVATION is a problem all over the world. Millions of Americans are starving, but it's not because they can't get enough food.

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Opinion

Affirmative action unfairly preferential

By Juliana Chan | April 6, 2001

LAST WEEK'S ruling at the University of Michigan's Law School was about something worse than affirmative action.

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Opinion

Include all types of diversity

By Harris Freier | April 6, 2001

LAST WEEK Rev. Jesse Jackson stood outside of the University of Michigan Law School and encouraged students to fight a court ruling which essentially banned affirmative action from being used as consideration in admissions to the law school.

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Opinion

Hateful, not humorous

By Adam Greene | April 6, 2001

ONE OF THE guys on stage asked, "If you rape a prostitute, can you also be arrested for shoplifting?" This was the first of many tawdry lines presented in Newcomb Theater on Sat, March 31 by the sordid characters who composed The Hooligans "comedy" troupe from Northeast Mississippi Community College.

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Opinion

Don't excuse athlete dropouts

By Luke Ryan | April 6, 2001

A COMPLETE college education is an experience that should never be skipped over. The primary goal of any university or institution of higher learning is an education -- that's a given.

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Opinion

Refuting arguments against reparations

By Faraz Rana | April 6, 2001

I RECENTLY wrote a column criticizing collegiate newspapers for refusing to print David Horowitz's ad condemning reparations on slavery.

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Opinion

Schools unfairly blame Greeks for deeper problems

By Laura Parcells | April 6, 2001

GREEK life on college campuses has always been controversial. The misconception that the only purpose of these social clubs is to provide a forum for excessive drinking and sexual promiscuity has long cast question upon the idea of fraternities and sororities being supported by learning institutions such as the University.

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Opinion

Bush's conservative policies pose problems

By Timothy Duboff | April 5, 2001

SOMEHOW we knew it would come down to this. He played the moderate card for a while, so long as it was politically convenient.