451 Brief: America’s Coffee Party
Posted on 17. Apr, 2010 by Luke Niforatos in Featured, [Inter]national
Amid the cries of the masses, the rampant bipartisan anger, and the more hard-line approach of the Tea Party there rings a single, clear, peaceful call for sanity. This call can be heard from the ranks of the newly established Coffee Party.
After reading the first sentence of this rising, increasingly bipartisan group, one can truly [...]
Trial Questions: Is Proposition 8 Constitutional?
Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Kayla in Featured, [Inter]national
There are a handful of historic court cases with which all American students become familiar – Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Nixon v. The United States. In 2010, another case is about to join these iconic cases in the history books: Perry v. Schwarzenegger, better known as the Proposition 8 case in the US District [...]
Pedestrians, Cyclists, Drivers: Who Will Win on Campus?
Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by Ben Waldman in Around Campus, Featured
Infamous among first-year students for its suggestive name, High Street is perhaps more often remembered for its consistent congestion and clashes among its users. Drivers are spooked by the daredevil cyclist blowing through stop signs and weaving around cars. Others cannot help but feel irritated waiting behind a cyclist who is blocking the entire lane. [...]
Why We Should Worry About Haiti’s Rebuilding Process: A Historical Lesson
Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Michael Neil in Op-Ed, [Inter]national
With the news that over one million Haitians remain homeless and that efforts are shifting away from the construction of permanent housing in favor of do-it-yourself wooden and, occasionally, steel structures, concern over the future of Haiti’s rebuilding process abounds. Even the International Organization for Migration sees few permanent structures emerging in less than five [...]
A Blow to the Democratic Process
Posted on 02. Feb, 2010 by Luke Niforatos in Featured, Op-Ed
Destroying democracy isn’t as hard as it used to be. With the January 21, 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling 5-4 in favor of unlimited political campaign donations, it seems as though all one must do to corrode the very values this nation was founded upon is dress up the travesty in the façade of progressivism.
Why [...]
