The United States must give foreign aid

By Amrit Mehra / January 30, 2006

Much of the discussion on foreign development aid today centers on whether it reaches the people who need it most. Is the assistance actually getting to the intended recipients,or does it continually fall into the hands of corrupt dictators and warlords? Such a question concerns its effectiveness, and implicitly calls for innovation and creative thinking...

More than millions

By Maroon Editorial Staff / January 27, 2006

On Wednesday, the University received a $42 million donation for construction of the Comer Center for Children and Specialty Care. This donation marks both the largest single donation in the University’s history and the final chapter of Gary Comer’s South Side philanthropy, totaling $84 million to the University. That the money has been designated for...

Want something done? Don’t ask SG.

By Barney Keller / January 26, 2006

Many times, in Government, we expect a certain amount of bureaucracy. There is the Social Security system, which processes millions of financial transactions each year. There is the State Department, which makes it nearly impossible to get a work permit in this country, and about as easy to get a passport as it is for...

Here’s a transcript of my talk with O’Really

By Patrick Hogan / January 26, 2006

Recently, I had the honor of appearing on one of America’s top rated cable news talk shows for a head-to-head with the world-famous Shrill O’Really, a man whose bizarre name certainly hasn’t kept him from clawing his way to the top of the entertainment food chain. Although the episode will not actually air until next...

Brokeback finds audiences in both the city and suburbs

By Matt Zakosek / January 26, 2006

“A lot of people who voted for Bush are going to love [Brokeback Mountain],” film producer James Schamus prophesized in Entertainment Weekly. It looks like he was right. I’ve seen Brokeback three times—the first two times at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema here in Chicago, and the third at AMC Cantera 30 in Warrenville, Illinois. I...

Good news about the insurgency in Iraq

By Joshua Steinman / January 26, 2006

Fierce retaliation ensued following the bombing of an Iraqi police recruiting station on January 5. Key local al Qaeda leaders were assassinated, and regional strikes were carried out in an effort to drive the foreign fighters from the city. Most interesting, though, was the acting party: Sunni insurgents. Iraq might be turning a corner, and...

Chartering Success

By Maroon Editorial Staff / January 24, 2006

It is welcome news that the University has increased its investment in area education with its second charter school that stands to offer a cutting edge education to students from areas who are in need. President Randel, who has spearheaded the charter school initiative in Chicago, deserves praise for this move. While enhancing education opportunities...

The trouble with boys? I don’t think so.

By Laura Hamilton / January 23, 2006

It’s been a weird week for the gender war. First, we hadthe radical feminist left engaged in a bizarre assault against Kate O’Beirne’s Women Who Make the World Worse. The attack consisted, from what I can tell, of writing unfavorable reviews on Amazon, modifying the image of the book’s cover in Microsoft Paint and posting...

Blaming Wal-Mart is counterproductive

By Alec Brandon / January 23, 2006

For some reason Wal-Mart has become a point of enormous contention in the United States. Wal-Mart has been furiously vilified by the left with books and movies. It has consistently been blamed for nearly every ill in the country, including the disappearance of town centers, the perceived stratification of wealth in the country, and the...

Care for All is not what you think

By Marcus Kinsella / January 23, 2006

The recent article “U.S. health care is a national failure” by David Whitsett touts the success of Care for All, a program that encourages the uninsured to seek free health care from hospitals in the Advocate Health Care Network and the Resurrection Health Care system. According to Whitsett, Care for All forces these hospitals to...

The United States government should not give foreign aid

By Eric Blaschke / January 23, 2006

A week ago, Dr. Yaron Brook, current president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, and Dr. Dan Slater of the University’s political science department debated the proposition that America has no obligation to provide foreign aid. Brook controversially argued not simply that past foreign aid has filled the coffers of dictators and failed...

Pressing concerns

By Maroon Editorial Staff / January 20, 2006

When editors from The Nation came to campus this week, they contended that a democracy depends on diversity of opinions and that the media must provide various outlets for those opinions. Editors from our many student publications were in the audience when they said this. In the past year, publications ranging from Diskord, a progressive...