Thursday, 5/29/97 Executions gaining favor PUNISHMENT: Politician’s, population’s opposition to death penalty eroding By Marianne Means New York Times It has taken decades of moralistic hand-wringing, political posturing about getting tough on crime and judicial irritation with legal delays, for the death penalty to become a quietly accepted fact of national life. We have not […]
Category Archives: Opinion
Criminalization of marijuana use out of step with state, people’s rights
Thursday, 5/29/97 Criminalization of marijuana use out of step with state, people’s rights DRUGS: Government "drug war" focuses on partisanship, imposes too severe penalties for offenders By Colin Morris Last November, the voters of California succeeded in passing a proposition to legalize the medicinal use of marijuana as prescribed by doctors. The passing of Proposition […]
Speaks Out
Thursday, 5/29/97 Speaks Out "If there were a cure for AIDS, do you think people would take less precautions when having sex?" Liberty Huang: I think they would. People seem to like premarital sex, and AIDS is probably the only thing that keeps people using condoms. With AIDS, people are less likely to have one-night […]
Prayer has been, is, will always be voluntary
Wednesday, 5/28/97 Prayer has been, is, will always be voluntary RELIGION: Judge’s display of Ten Commandments shows fine line in church-state debate By Jim Wright Just where to draw the line between a nation rooted in religious faith and a state-sponsored religion continues to plague the minds of our most fastidious legal dogmatists. In Alabama, […]
Apathy shouldn’t be part of college life
Wednesday, 5/28/97 Apathy shouldn’t be part of college life POLITICS: Those who don’t vote shouldn’t criticize election results By Elizabeth Geyer What I am tired of is hearing how disunited we are, and "can’t we all just get along?" Isn’t this the same article that is traditionally cranked out during every election at The Bruin? […]
Letters
Wednesday, 5/28/97 Letters Misconduct As undergraduate students, we want to express our anger at the disgraceful manner our USAC President John Du chose to represent our student body during last Friday’s retirement celebration for Chancellor Young. Others attending the event, such as Graduate Students Association President Chris Tymchuk, respectfully limited their speeches to thanking Young […]
‘Reinvention’ of science fails both women, intellectualism
Wednesday, 5/28/97 ‘Reinvention’ of science fails both women, intellectualism SOCIETY: Achievement in academic world, gender unrelated to each other When I was in seventh grade, I was the perfect candidate for the women’s studies program. Naively, I spent hours reading books on minor female historical figures like Sybil Ludington and Nellie Bly. When History Day […]