Four years ago, at the Freshman Convocation, Professor Lee Epstein told us, “I am, you are, we all are-profoundly uncertain.” Now four years later those words seem to have greater meaning and greater relevance.
As someone deeply moved by Relay for Life this past weekend, I was horrified by Monday’s Student Life. The Relay for Life story’s headline was not what concerned me, but rather the inappropriate picture that took up nearly the entire top half of the page.
I was recently talking to a Teach for America teacher in New Orleans, and when the subject of sex education came up she had some very troubling information. She said that she was forced to teach her eleventh graders, most of whom were already sexually active, the strict abstinence-only sex education program of the Bush administration.
The recent furor over the campus hub being shut down is absolutely ridiculous.Now, I’ll admit that I was a regular user of the hub.Getting music for free is fun, although legally questionable.But that debate has nothing to do with my letter.
This weekend Ralph Nader, the Green Party spoiler of the 2000 presidential election, decided to enter the 2004 race as an independent. While Nader claims that he is joining the race because in his opinion America’s two party system does not offer a broad enough range of choices, his decision to enter as an independent comes across as a self-promoting publicity stunt that obliterates all credibility he once held as a consumer advocate and as the spokesman of the Green Party.
When I heard rumors that the Bush administration and his uber-conservative congress were contemplating passing a constitutional amendment to forever define the institution of marriage as between a man and a woman, I kind of laughed the prospect off as political posturing.
For the first time in the two plus years of his presidency, George Bush is looking beatable in a general election. With the exposure of faulty intelligence gathering practices, mainstream support for the war in Iraq has, for the first time, dipped below 50 percent.
Washington University Board of Trustees member Michael Sears was fired last week from his post as Chief Financial Officer of Boeing for unethical conduct. Sears’ position on the Board of Trustees remains unchanged for now.
A recent wave of muggings around the Washington University campus has left students feeling increasingly anxious about safety concerns.
Both Washington University and University City police independently confirmed that there has not been a statistical increase in the number of robberies in their jurisdictions compared with last year, however.
Most recently, three non-Washington University students were robbed at gunpoint on Pershing Ave. on Nov. 21.
While most students study abroad to experience a foreign culture, immerse themselves in a language or break away from the routine of college life, a new study by the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) reports that the real benefits of studying abroad may come after students return to the States.
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