Category: Viewpoints

Laura Merrell There are numerous traffic and transportation issues on this campus, from cars refusing to stop at crosswalks, to golf carts zooming around on sidewalks, to some students’ refusal to stay even remotely within parking space lines. But the largest problem that’s pushing my buttons is the traffic light that was installed on Beall…

Robin Klaus It was 10 minutes to class time.  As I rushed out of my room, I stumbled upon a surprise…the hallway carpet that was a dull shade of green just the night before, was now unidentifiable beneath a blinding layer of glitter.  There was so much glitter, it would not have surprised me if…

Jesse Tiffen Non-reusable water bottles are not only completely economically illogical, but also produce a plethora of social and environmental problems. No one ever considers the process behind producing plastic bottles. Often, plastic water bottles are riddled with petrochemical toxins. We all want to drink the purest water we can get and may not trust…

Dan Grantham Growing up, I was infatuated with a blue anthropomorphic tank engine named Thomas, along with his friends Percy, James, Gordon and a host of others who inhabited the fictional Island of Sodor. This love affair lasted for much of my childhood, and the tender feelings re-emerged one Sunday in the summer of 2010…

Wyatt Smith Around election time, partisans often threaten to leave the country if the opposing party takes office. If one wanted to make good on this threat, they would face an important question: which country? Liberals tend to find this question easier to answer than do conservatives. Democrats can throw a dart at a map…

Soona Salem On Sunday, a variety of Syrian opposition groups convened in Doha, Qatar for talks on forming a unified front against the regime of Bashar Al-Assad. The meeting follows a call from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for an overhaul of the Syrian National Council (SNC), the opposition group-in-exile that has gained the support…