Editorials

  • Muslim Student Association teaches culture

    Editorials March 28, 2011 at 6:49 pm Comments are Disabled

    Monday marks the beginning of the annual Islam Awareness Week celebration. IAW is a national event that Muslim Student Associations from colleges all around the U.S. celebrate. According to the MSA National website, IAW aims to “introduce Islam on a unified platform to all university and college campuses.”

     
  • Is it really worth voting in student elections on April 5 and 6?

    Is it really worth voting in student elections on April 5 and 6?

    Editorials March 28, 2011 at 6:44 pm Comments are Disabled

    Student Government elections are looming. Campaigning has already begun and elections are scheduled to take place April 5–6 . The question is, is it worth voting?

     
  • What does foreign democracy mean to the United States?

    Editorials March 28, 2011 at 6:43 pm Comments are Disabled

    The recent chain of events occurring throughout the Middle East and North Africa should come as a welcome shift in politics for a nation promoting freedom and democracy, yet our actions contradict this logic.

     
  • Put your money where your heart is

    Put your money where your heart is

    Editorials March 28, 2011 at 6:41 pm Comments are Disabled

    I still remember the morning that I left to go on Spring Break. At roughly 3 a.m., I was in Eisenhower playing pool with some of my friends. I had just narrowly avoided sinking the 8 ball when a security guard walked in and turned on the news, and what I saw was indescribable.

     
  • Obama’s failure in Libya

    Obama’s failure in Libya

    Editorials March 28, 2011 at 6:38 pm Comments are Disabled

    Any stated policy on regime change? No, but no one is really completely sure. Exit strategy? None. Congressional approval? Non-existent.

     
  • Bad teachers and budget cuts

    Bad teachers and budget cuts

    Editorials March 7, 2011 at 8:30 pm Comments are Disabled

    These past few weeks, states across the nation have seen an eruption of protests as Republican-controlled legislatures and governorships attempt to balance their budgets by restricting reckless public sector labor unions.

     
  • You should never stay in an abusive relationship

    Editorials March 7, 2011 at 8:28 pm 1 comment

    In high school, I knew a girl who had all the potential in the world. She was extremely intelligent and actually received her diploma at age 16. After graduation, her boyfriend followed her to college.

     
  • The true price of Sodexo

    The true price of Sodexo

    Editorials March 7, 2011 at 8:26 pm 1 comment

    Let me start by saying this article has nothing to do with the Sodexo controversy regarding their workers. Sodexo is taking advantage of another group of people — students.

     
  • The campus housing farce

    The campus housing farce

    Editorials March 7, 2011 at 8:24 pm 1 comment

    Here at George Mason University there is no better example of spin than the university’s recent classification as a residential campus by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Excessive promotion of this is premature and potentially harmful.

     
  • With noise in library it’s more efficient to study in your own home

    With noise in library it’s more efficient to study in your own home

    Editorials March 7, 2011 at 8:22 pm Comments are Disabled

    The ancient rocker Bob Dylan, who was surmised by most of Generation Y as being an artifact from Generation B, once said, “The times they are a-changin’.”