Illegal immigration has generated seemingly endless debates. Its effect on health care services, overpopulation, higher taxes and employment fraud have been dragged all over every major cable news network for the past six months.
Commencement ceremonies are not just an honor but an academic tradition and rite of passage. It is when students endeavors beyond the university commence. Thus, considering the meaning, honor and importance of commencement, it is a shame ceremonies at other universities have become politicized and have not been virtuous events.
Earn $1000 per week! Pay off your student loans in no time!These are the promises countless fliers around college campuses use to bait students in need of money. All you have to do is tear off a paper tab and call the number to change your life. Unfortunately, this could not be further from the truth.
Earlier this quarter, my editor specifically asked me not to make any shoutouts in my final column. Im going to do it anyway. Id like to give a big shoutout to the University of Cincinnati.While Im at it, Im going to break another column-writing rule: Dont talk about yourself.
Post-Sept. 11 government: 342, free speech: 0.During the weekend, President George W. Bush took a step toward ensuring courtesy and respect during military burials by banning protests at military funerals. This action was passed with the mostly good intentions of ensuring decency and respect for the men and women who gave their lives for this country as they are brought to their final resting place.
Im not going to tell you what to eat for dinner. I dont care how much you drink tonight. Just because I dont smoke, I certainly dont care that you do — unless youre blowing it in my face. Want to go base-jumping? Do it. Ill stick to skydiving, thanks.
When you go to college you expect to do a lot of things. You expect to hang out with old friends and make new ones, you expect to party and if you feel like it, go to class. But something no one expects to do is to rat out their roommates for breaking the rules.
