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Dangerous Dean: Is the current front-runner really electable?
JOEL MOSER, CONTRIBUTOR
We Democrats have one chance to beat President Bush in 2004 and it's high time that we start talking about who can put together a winning coalition of voters.
[read the article] Ominous clouds for the president
ALEXANDER REED, CONTRIBUTOR
The American people have, especially in recent years, been very forgiving towards Republican presidents. Whether it be Ronald Reagan during the Iran-Contra affair, or George W. Bush during Election 2000 and the Second Gulf War, we have often had a very long fuse.
[read the article] No Child Left Behind works backwards for education
BRYANT ANTHONY RICH, COLUMNIST
Featured prominently on the front page of Wednesday's New York Times was an article entitled: "Gains in Houston Schools: How Real Are They? A Miracle Revisited." One of President Bush's flagship social efforts in 2000 was education.
[read the article] Decisions, not choices, shape who we truly are
KATHERINE S. HAYES, CONTRIBUTOR
I was unaware that college entailed so many important decisions. Seemingly, decisions defining not only your college career, but also the rest of your life.
[read the article] A holiday poem
KARA OPPENHEIM, COLUMNIST
'Twas the weeks before Christmas / At a small college in Maine. /
With finals approaching, /
Everyone was insane.
[read the article] Student Speak
MIKE WOOD
What is the most annoying quality in a roommate? [read the article] |
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Moving towards balance
Academic hiring practices, and hence course offerings, should be guided by the conviction that an entrenched ideology must never override the ideals of a liberal arts education, which seeks not to persuade students to think in one way over another; put simply, it should provide them with the intellectual agility to understand and evaluate different perspectives before choosing their own.
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Just look at the sorry history
It is with rather bad grace that many of the very same conservatives who supported the U.S. invasion of Iraq are arguing that, now that we are committed, we must stay the course (e.g., Gil Barndollar, "Turning back would be irresponsible-we've gone too far," Orient, November 21, 2003).
[read the letter] Careful watching "Queer Eye"
While the opinion I will share below is not intended to reflect too harshly on the character and person of Patrick Rockefeller, a columnist for the Orient, most of what I do intend to be more than frank about my reaction to his views on the pop T.V. show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
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