Christopher Johnson, Opinion Writer
May 8, 2013
In February, student representatives from various UW campuses around the state descended on the Capitol in Madison to urge state legislators to hold down the annual tuition increases to no more than 3 percent to 4 percent beginning this fall. The cap is currently at 5.5 percent, and was scheduled to... Read more »
Erik Dorn, Opinion Writer
May 8, 2013
Purchasing a pressure cooker, a package of nails and some ball bearings wouldn’t have set off any alarms prior to the Boston Marathon bombings. In a new age of terror, profiling may be the only way to stop future attacks. According to CNN, the bombing has been described as another wake-up call and... Read more »
Nicole Lasee, Entertainment Editor
May 8, 2013
As we approach another hot summer, rumors of climate change filter into our thoughts. We have been warned about our negative effects on the planet since Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” was brought to the forefront of the big screen. Our damages are becoming more and more prevalent and are becoming... Read more »
Tyler Smith, Opinion Writer
May 8, 2013
Social media keeps rising and its influence reaches not only basic users, but reaches journalistic practices as well as advertising. And this technology is in the hands of idiots. According to CNBC guest writer Pat Calhoun, senior vice president of network security for McAfee, we are not competent in... Read more »
Tyler Smith, Opinion Writer
May 1, 2013
Our morbid curiosities have given rise to the media’s sensational tactics in reporting on the tragedies we commonly witness today — tactics that have spurred quick and dirty reporting that can be wholly inaccurate. According to Huffington Post writer Jack Mirkinson, the New York Post was greatly... Read more »
Christopher Johnson, Opinion Writer
May 1, 2013
There are two recent cases of young women committing suicide after having been sexually assaulted as far as India and as close as Ohio. These women’s perpetrators took photographs of their actions while in progress and actually posted them to social media accounts. After the women were driven to suicide,... Read more »
Erik Dorn, Opinion Writer
May 1, 2013
One of the hottest debates in college athletics is whether student athletes should get paid for the large amounts of revenue being brought in by their contributions. However, it isn’t financially sound for athletic organizations to pay students who already receive scholarships. The first thing that... Read more »
Tyler Smith, Opinion Writer
April 24, 2013
Genetically modified food has made its way into our markets whether we like it or not, and the potential side effects appear to be of little concern to manufacturers. According to International Business Times writer Connor Sheets, Obama recently signed House of Representatives bill 933, which was meant... Read more »
Christopher Johnson, Opinion Writer
April 24, 2013
Recently in Texas, a 20-year-old man went on a rampage on a small college campus with a knife, wounding 14 people, two of them seriously. Incidents like this show that bad guys with bad intentions don’t necessarily need a high capacity assault rifle to inflict horror, injury or paranoia on a community. Fortunately,... Read more »
April 24, 2013
Response 1: By: Rory Cowart President of the Sexuality and Gender Alliance In response to Mr. Dorn’s article, I must wholeheartedly disagree. Not only because the study that he cited promoting the idea that same-sex parents are harmful to their children was completely unfounded due to researchers’... Read more »
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