While our President is preoccupied with Iraq, a sniper is on the loose near the nation’s capital, using a legally attainable weapon to murder innocent victims. The sniper has killed nine people since October 2, sending a shockwave of fear through suburban Washington and the nation. Stories of moms keeping their kids home from kindergarten […]
Author Archives: Michelle Singer
Fundamentalists should learn to be more accepting
The actions of one fundamental religious group ““ Christians ““ are an appalling testament to the direction America is headed. Merely two days after the horrific terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, television evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson began a string of irrational hate-based comments that seemed intended to alienate and isolate large groups […]
Sides should stop bickering, reopen ports
The United States economy has lost one billion dollars every day since Sunday, and we can’t blame it all on the stock market. It’s the result of a tense contract dispute. All 29 ports on the West Coast, from San Diego to Vancouver, have been shut down since the 10,500 members of the International Longshore […]
Bush should listen to international friends
When was the last time China, Russia and France all agreed on a topic of international policy? Diplomats and war hawks alike should take notice. Although all three countries have become a nuisance to President Bush’s “we’re going to war” campaign, each has a valid point about impending actions taken in relation to Iraq. Despite […]
Youth apathy needs to change in college
Maybe I’m too cynical, but I just fail to understand how most people on this campus can care so little about what is going on in the world. Since 1971, the Twenty Sixth Amendment has given 18- to 21-year-olds a right they did not previously possess, the right to vote. The big push to pass […]
UCLA not fully educating
Joe Bruin sits in the back row of some tedious lecture, agonizing over the day’s crossword puzzle while a couple towards the front lacking such stringent academic discipline decides to make a quick exit. And at the front, the professor drones on, apparently oblivious to everyone but the people in the first few rows, who […]