Evaluating the Student Activities Board
The Undergraduate Student Government’s event planning organization, the Student Activities Board, is responsible for roughly $534,000 of student money, and yet it has proven for the second year in a[...]
Category: Opinion
90 Percent of Politicians Give the Other 10 Percent a Bad Reputation
By Deborah Machalow For the better part of three years, I have served as an elected official of the student body; I have always done what I believed was right and[...]
Santorum’s Last Stand
The presidential primaries are usually a time when the people of a particular party come together. They coalesce to elect someone they feel has the chutzpah (here’s looking at you,[...]
Activist Against OverReaction · Columns · Opinion
Why Care About the Titanic
One hundred years ago (and a couple days), the mightiest ocean vessel of the time set sail from Southampton, England on its way to America. It carried with it over[...]
Activist Against OverReaction · Columns · Opinion
Another Look at Being Offensive
I recently wrote about political correctness. I’d actually like to expand on that theme. First off, I’d like to note that everyone is offended by something. Period. Now, I’m fixin’[...]
The Republicans on Primary Island
One of the great things about writing a column where I’m allowed to bring a cynical, slightly-ironic hipster’s perspective to news stories is that literally everything is newsworthy. What I’m[...]
Kony Island
There is no question that Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, is an evil man. There is no question that he deserves the title of beast—if beasts could[...]
Republicans Do Too
The Republican primary race has struggled to identify a strong, leading nominee, with each candidate showing political or diplomatic weaknesses. Mitt Romney’s questionable wording to a business group in New[...]
Democrats Have Opinions
The Republican Party appears to be making this election all too easy for President Obama this year. With the constant bickering among one another and attempts to out-badmouth each other,[...]
Activist Against OverReaction · Columns
Why It’s Not a Birth Control Debate
I am exasperated with the birth control debate. I don’t even really like calling it that because it seems inaccurate. What exactly is being debated? Religious rights, women’s rights, health,[...]