With the end of the year, many college seniors are stressing about their future employment – or lack thereof. They should relax a bit. The job market, overall, is looking up.
The Student Worker Alliance is concerned with the welfare of the worst-off on campus. I share this concern, but have grave doubts about the consequences of their living wage campaign. In fact, the campaign will hurt the worst-off of the worst-off-the Latino migrant workers on campus.
The main reason I like the Student Worker Alliance so much, even as I’m unsure of my support of their platform, is that they have the chutzpah to raise hell.
Doing good on campus virtually always takes the form of raising awareness. There’s an awareness week for everything: sexual assault, Latin America, eating disorders, etc.
Raising awareness just isn’t enough. Positive change requires actively fighting. The number of times I’ve heard students and administrators say they’re “having conversations” to address such-and-such problem makes me want to puke.
You know, it’s really a shame that Student Union is underappreciated on campus. SU does so much for the student body: its members work tirelessly for your benefit, scramble to find out what you think on the most minute of matters, and stand up against the administration when warranted.
Many people don’t live as long as Terri Schiavo has been dying. For the last 15 years, Schiavo has been in what doctors call a persistent vegetative state. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, patients in such a state have lost higher brain functions, though breathing and circulation remain intact, and their eyes may even open in response to external stimuli.
According to the free market, the value (to a student) of a nearly complete night of studying is $30. How did I arrive at this figure? Sophomore year, I was prescribed Ritalin, a mental stimulant, to counter the effects of some other medications I was on. The side effects were too unpleasant, and I ended up not using most of the bottle.
Let’s start with the bad news: gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning, asexual and allied interests are sorely neglected on campus. In large part, this is due to a conservative culture when it comes to GLBTQA issues. For example, Residential Life refused to allow a transgender student to live with friends of his own gender, according to Spectrum Alliance President Kristen Chopra.
The music is thumping, bodies are grinding and your partner for the night and you leave the party, for obvious reasons. When you got back to your place, you start kissing-but it’s more like fumbling with your lips. The clothes come off-but you’re not sure how you managed that.
Get the facts on Taco Bell Dear Editor: Re: “Boot the Bell,” [Jan. 31, 2005]. It is clear that the author, Jacob Gerber, did not present the facts in a fair light. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has been demanding that Taco Bell force its suppliers to pay its workers an additional penny per pound of tomatoes picked.
A major thrust of Susan Stiritz’s talk last Tuesday was that women need to have more orgasms. It’s somehow bad that most women don’t have orgasms on a regular basis. Stiritz is an avowed feminist, and she surely believes that feminism should support more female orgasms.
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