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(12/10/03 6:00am)
\Those soldiers died for nothing."" I recently overheard a
fellow student make this comment, which is as disheartening as it
is wrong. This war has cost many lives and huge sums of money. The
end result is by no means certain and the reasons for war
articulated by the administration appear dubious. However, this war
has achieved numerous noble and worthwhile ends. To deny this is to
belittle the sacrifice of the men and women of our military and to
dishonor the lives of those who died.
(12/03/03 6:00am)
I have always been wary of measures designed to get tough on
crime, especially mandatory minimum sentences and three strike
laws. These laws destroy judicial discretion and punish individuals
based on history instead of on their accused crime. We should not
be surprised that the United States leads the world in
incarceration rate, with 686 out of 100,000 Americans in prison.
Draconian drug laws have also played a large role in creating a
society where approximately 2 million people are in jail.
(11/19/03 6:00am)
I have learned entirely too much chemistry as an undergraduate
and, sadly, most of it has been unused. When I combined this with
my perpetual lack of money I could draw only one conclusion-it was
time to brew my own alcohol.
(11/12/03 6:00am)
If our government made sense, federal aid to help poor college
students would go to the schools with the most low-income students.
Of course our government does not make sense. According to a New
York Times analysis of the Department of Education's statistics,
the richer, more influential schools get vastly more money per
student than colleges that actually enroll the majority of poor
students. Even better, our dear Wisconsin is used as a prime
example of schools getting cheated out of federal money.
(11/05/03 6:00am)
The North Korean government just never gives up. In October it
announced its intention to test nuclear weapons. I hope this remark
was just another bluff to gain leverage with the Untied States,
though as a result of these statements I have started to really
rethink whether our hard-line approach is an acceptable solution.
Fortunately, a world-class expert on North Korea, Selig Harrison,
will be speaking on this issue at the Wisconsin Historical Society
this Thursday at 4 p.m. I hope everyone interested in Korean
affairs will attend.
(10/29/03 6:00am)
\The anti-war movement here and abroad must give its
unconditional support to the Iraqi anti-colonial resistance."" With
this statement, which was published in brochures and repeated in
recent public demonstrations, the international group Act Now to
Stop War and End Racism has finally made clear its alliance with
fascists.
(10/22/03 6:00am)
Our country is currently mired in a staggering deficit due to
the fiscal irresponsibility of the Bush Administration. Spending
cuts, or even spending limitations, have not been used to balance
the huge tax cuts Bush forced through Congress. The reputation of
the Republican Party as deficit hawks has evaporated as spending
increases under Bush have surpassed those under Clinton. Fiscal
conservatives and moderate Democrats have every reason to be
worried about our massive budget shortfall.
(10/15/03 6:00am)
I have never owned a handgun and I highly doubt I ever will.
Moreover, I definitely do not need to carry a handgun to school for
protection. So clearly I am against the repeal of the ban on
concealed handguns, right? No.
(10/08/03 6:00am)
Oswaldo Paya's house in Havana is fairly easy to identify. Just
look for the not-so-secret secret police keep the house under
24-hour surveillance; they will be located on park benches and in
parked cars. The house is also monitored by video cameras, the
phones are tapped and all mail is opened. The Cuban government is
clearly afraid of this Catholic human-rights activist.
(10/01/03 6:00am)
Last week Kurt Vonnegut came to our campus for the Distinguished
Lecture Series.. And as one would expect, he was an unbelievable
mix of cynicism and light-heartedness.
(09/24/03 6:00am)
The contraption was so easy to run,\ inventor of the roller
spinning machine John Wyatt said, ""that businesses didn't need as
many skilled craftspeople with spinning wheels; they could get by
with children instead, even children of five or six years of age.""
(09/17/03 6:00am)
What the hell is going on in Iraq? I have been reading every
article I can find and I still don't know if they hate us, if their
country is going to explode or if sweet, delicious democracy is
making a foothold.
(09/10/03 6:00am)
Many liberals seem to have decided that Bush lied. This belief
has consumed them with a rage approaching the right wing's
self-destructive hysteria over Bill Clinton's liberty with the
truth.
(09/03/03 6:00am)
I always thought our media was sensationalistic; if a story was
violent or lurid, then it was assured space on the page and time on
air. Yet when The Telegraph, one of the major newspapers of Great
Britain, runs the headline \Famine-struck N. Koreans 'eating
children',"" I heard nothing about the story in the American press.
If you skimmed the headline, I will summarize it for you:
""cannibalism.""
(08/29/03 6:00am)
The beginning of the new semester ushers in the fall season of
student activism. This year offers the choice opportunity to
combine the pleasures of demonstrating against the evils of
globalization with the sunny paradise of Cancun. If you act
quickly, you can probably still book tickets to the Sept. 4-11
meetings of the World Trade Organization. The first two weeks of
class are pointless anyway, so pack your bags and prepare to drink
in margaritas and social justice.
(06/05/03 6:00am)
Abortion: the one topic that appears to have no compromises. A
seemingly unbridgeable gap stands between those desiring that
everything be permitted and those wishing that any form of abortion
be abolished. Roe v. Wade was decided 30 years ago when medicine
could say very little about the state of the fetus in the months
leading up to birth; this is no longer true. The scientific
discoveries since 1973 necessitate a rethinking of abortion.