COLLEGE years pass us by quickly. No one knows this better than the graduating Class of 2011. Therefore, as we enjoy our remaining days here, we should take time to reflect on the qualities that make the University truly distinct. One is the University's designation as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
THROUGHOUT history, we have seen our once narrowly defined gender roles progressively expand. Today, women serve in the armed forces, work as surgeons and participate in the highest levels of government.
ON FRIDAY, over one billion individuals in 192 countries will take part in the world's greatest civic observance - Earth Day 2011.
MAHATMA Gandhi once said, "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." By these standards, the United States is not the great nation it claims to be, but instead a nation vested in unsound morals and barbaric agricultural practices. Every year in the United States, 10 billion animals are slaughtered to meet Americans' meat consumption demands.
THE DISCOVERY of the DNA double helix structure in 1953 was one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.
NUCLEAR disasters such as Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima often erode public support in nuclear power, and for good reason.
TRAVELING is defined not only by the places you see, but also by the people you meet along the way. While traveling this Spring Break, I happened to sit next to an elderly woman who quite unexpectedly taught me an invaluable life lesson. She was what one might call a personal historian.
EVERY day around the world, millions of defenseless animals suffer in silence at the hands of humans.
WHEN English Captain George Vancouver entered the Strait of Juan de Fuca in May 1792, he did so with the hope of discovering an extensive "Mediterranean ocean" thought to exist somewhere in the northern Pacific.
FORMER First Lady Rosalyn Carter has been quoted as saying, "There are only four kinds of people in this world - those who have been caregivers, those who currently are caregivers, those who will be caregivers and those who need caregivers." Mrs. Carter understood that at the heart of the U.S.
