Archive: Mar 2001
Missile defense system worth attempting despite drawbacks
The purpose of military defense for our country is to insure the safety of American citizens. The National Missile Defense System is a specific way to guard against a specific threat that the United States faces. The NMDS would provide protection against ?states of concern.? These are countries that cannot be assumed to act rationally. […]
Variety of factors to determine tuition
Students, get ready and reach into your pockets, because the announcement of next year?s tuition, board and meal plans is just around the corner.It is yet to be seen how skyrocketing fuel and health care costs will impact student tuition.In order to understand how the tuition price is set, one must remember that education cost […]
Campus Briefs
The Wailers, the legendary reggae band originally formed by Bob Marley, will perform April 28 for Dandelion Day.Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer started the band in 1963. When they separated to pursue solo careers in 1973, the name was passed to Aston ?Familyman? Barrett.The current Wailers include seven of the backup band members who […]
Minorities have advantage on SAT II
Daily Bruin (U. California-Los Angeles)(U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES ? Some minorities may have an advantage on standardized testing, said David Benjamin, founder and owner of Ahead of the Class, a private education company based in Orange County.?The SAT II is not a perfect test ? it hasn?t really been studied before,? Benjamin said.The testsThe SAT II […]
Trial bus run begins Wednesday
Imagine it?s Wednesday afternoon and you?re hungry. You?re already out of food from your weekly shopping trip aboard the UR Special. You?re tired of eating Pit food, sick of standing in line at Douglass and you just don?t have that Danforth feeling. The Corner Store doesn?t carry what you?re looking for and you don?t have […]
Editorial Board: Ride the bus
We know the complaints about this campus. It?s bound by a graveyard and a river. There?s no college town. Parking is substandard. It?s too cold to walk anywhere.On a campus that is so isolated from the community, one of the most valuable resources is the UR Special, the Saturday bus that chauffeurs students to Marketplace […]
Medical and recreational marijuana prohibitions must end
Among those who are tried on drug-related charges in Brooklyn?s Supreme Court, Yitzchak Fried is not a regular. Nevertheless, the 52-year-old Orthodox rabbi was brought before Judge Plummer E. Lott on charges of selling seven ounces of marijuana to a police informant. The rabbi, who has had a history of trying to help heroin junkies […]
Ready to learn?
Entering college classes sent me into a bit of an academic culture shock. It wasn?t that the classes were harder or that there was more work ? it was that they made the students step up to another level.Case in point: When we ?studied? Shakespeare in high school, the teachers knew we probably weren?t going […]
Florida proved the strength of our democracy
Regardless of who you thought should have won the presidential election, and regardless of whom you thought more people actually voted for, the outcome of the Florida election crisis protected your rights as an American citizen. For Gore supporters, and for those who simply maintain that more people intended to vote for Gore, these words […]
Prevention of tragedy falls to parents
You may have missed it during spring break, but kids, guns and death were all in the headlines last week.In Santee, Calif., a 15-year-old boy, who friends thought was only joking, shot and killed two students and injured another baker?s dozen at his high school. What is this world coming to? Why do some kids […]