If there�s one thing I hate about college, it�s school. The partying and free movie screenings are great, and living in a matchbox in the dorms with two roommates isn�t too terrible. But the whole going-to-class, homework and studying part? I could really do without. Unfortunately, however, until the education part of college is phased […]
Author Archives: Katie Strickland
FDA incompetence a hard pill to swallow
Many people don’t trust the government, and after close examination, it’s not difficult to tell why. It’s always in trouble on the news for a “cover-up” that hid something important from the public. It docks enormous amounts of money from our paychecks for reasons explained only by mysterious abbreviations. And it employs an army of […]
The grad podium isn’t a soapbox
In order to graduate, you will sit through four years of tedious speeches. There are the boring, redundant lectures given at orientation that warn you not to cheat ““ complete with cheesy video footage of a student who not only got kicked out of UCLA for plagiarism but couldn’t even get accepted by USC afterward. […]
Attracting the wise with money
The top candidate to fill the position of UCLA’s next chancellor, Deborah A. Freund, has decided not to accept the job offer. Her reasoning, as reported in a Los Angeles Times article, citing an anonymous source: UCLA couldn’t find a job for her husband. Although this anonymous source may or may not be completely reliable, […]
Brutal comedy finally pops Bush’s bubble
When a person is attacked, it’s human nature to fight back. The U.S. didn’t just sit around after Pearl Harbor was attacked. Or when France decided not to support the Iraqi invasion, how silly would it have been not to change the name of our favorite snack to “freedom fries”? If the U.S. hadn’t retaliated […]
Congress sputters out gas “˜solutions’
There aren’t many things I like more than free money. And there aren’t many things I hate more than losing money. It might seem to you, then, that I should be jumping for joy at the GOP’s new plan to would dole out $100 checks to American citizens burdened by high gas prices. It also […]
Americans are idle, and it’s got to stop
Nothing melts the stress away at the end of a long day like a cheap joke at the expense of the American government. I laughed my nuclear arms worries away this weekend as I watched “American Dreamz,” a political and social satire of the United States. I was an outsider, an observer of our nation […]