Wednesday Cheers and Jeers This week's cheers and jeers. CHEERS TO• Cheers to the university for holding a session yesterday to discuss what to do when someone enters a classroom with a gun. Campus...
Yesterday, the Daily Kent Stater ran an article about the abandoned houses owned by Kent State located a block from the university’s north campus that sit unoccupied or vacant, and even more across the...
Welcome to America, home of the world’s finest medical treatment facilities that most of the citizenry can’t even afford. To your left, you will notice staggering unemployment. To your right, an embarrassing...
At the beginning of this month, I read a most interesting news report in Time (“Homeschooling: German Family Gets Political Asylum in U.S”) . A German family with two children was granted political...
Today, students will have the opportunityto decide what next year’s student governmentwill look like.The Undergraduate Student Government isholding elections today for its 18 elected directorand senator...
Our country is in an energy crisis, and ithurts young people more than anyone. Oldand dirty power plants are polluting ourneighborhoods, our friends and neighbors arelosing their jobs, energy bills have...
It’s been two years and four months sincethe death of Norman Mailer. In honor of him,here are some excerpts from a discussionbetween Mailer and William F. Buckley on FiringLine in 1968.Buckley was interviewing...
The “animal rights” community was certainly unhappy with my column last week (“Humans always come before animals,” March 1) when I stated that I would never donate money to an animal shelter because...
Last week I wrote a column in response to one written by another columnist. The column was called “Country first” by Anastasia Spytsya (Feb. 25), and my response was called “How I learned to stop...
Last Thursday, thousands of college students across the country protested budget cuts to state university systems. Students took to the streets, letting lawmakers hear their pleas to put money back into...
Growing up where I did in California, I found there were typically two schools of thought when it came to the military: You either thought they were on par with baby-killers or a back-up plan to pay for...
As the old saying goes, “If you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all.” I try my hardest to live by that saying, but growing up in a home where you were encouraged to speak...
