Master Plan to change University’s image

By Abby Seiff / November 3, 2003

Lets face it, the Shoreland has problems. It has roofs that leak if it rains too much. It has faulty sprinklers and radiators that have completely flooded at least three rooms in the last two years. Now that work is being done to the façade, it at the very least, bothers people and keeps them...

Dean is the democratic front-runner

By Andrew Hammond / November 3, 2003

Tonya Southard’s article (“Howard Dean Has What It Takes To Be President,” 10/31/03) highlighted many important issues that will confront the American people in 2004, but she was not able to answer any of my questions about Dean’s weaknesses as a candidate. First, her premise was fallacious. I am incredibly optimistic about the coming presidential...

Update from the Student Government

By Jesse Ehrenfeld / October 31, 2003

This is the second in a series of regular Student Government (SG) columns that are designed to keep the campus community informed of the actions of Student Government. As the Student Liaison to the Board of Trustees, I am charged with representing the interests and desires of the student body to the Board of Trustees....

Bush offends with Iraq-Philippines parallel

By Joel Lanceta / October 31, 2003

My father came to America in 1973, seeking to escape the squalor and violence of the Philippines, then under the control of the repressive Marcos dictatorship. He came back to the Philippines ten years later to retrieve my mother, who was pregnant with me at the time. Since then, my father has been an ideal,...

Howard Dean has what it takes to be president

By Tonya Southard / October 31, 2003

It may seem like a safe, calculated, and methodical approach to remain cynical and pessimistic regarding the possibility of a future Democratic presidency, especially considering how futile Democratic efforts were in the previous presidential election. However, there are several compelling reasons why this perspective is incorrect when one analyzes the optimistic campaign efforts of current...

Center for American Progress helps Democrats

By Joshua Steinman / October 28, 2003

The Democratic Party is still adrift. With neither a guiding force nor a leading individual, the party is traveling in opposite directions, deepening the divisions already apparent. Pro-choice factionalists were dealt a defeat this week when the Senate outlawed so-called “partial-birth abortions.” Peace Democrats are constantly flummoxed by the President’s aggressive foreign policy. And Democrats...

Dean’s Advisory Council addresses diversity issues

By Andrew Elliot-Chandler / October 28, 2003

In its next meeting, the Dean’s Advisory Council seeks to tackle the issue of diversity in the college experience. Admittedly, this is an issue heavily discussed and well represented in administration-student relations, but the council hopes to approach the issue on more unusual fronts. Primarily, as we work most directly with the Dean of Students...

Drinking observations from the UK

By William Baude / October 28, 2003

The legal drinking age in the U.K. (where I’m studying this year) is 18, and I’ve had the dubious privilege of hanging out with all of the “freshers” as they go through their orientation week. This has been a culture shock—nearly every orientation mixer (all of them college-sponsored) has involved alcohol. Drinks in the Old...

Suspicions arise over absence of inquiry into Rumsfeld memo leak

By Laura Hamilton / October 28, 2003

In his infamous memo, Donald Rumsfeld wrote “My impression is that we have not yet made truly bold moves, although we have made many sensible, logical moves in the right direction, but are they enough?” Rumsfeld clearly leaked this memo intentionally. He is well aware of the tendency of military secrets to become public knowledge;...

Angry liberals are the only ones conducting meaningful dialogue

By Gautham Rao / October 28, 2003

Over the past few months, you may have noticed the right wing’s long, pointed finger (which finger is unclear), aimed at “angry liberals”—Howard Dean, Paul Krugman, Al Franken, Joe Conason, Molly Ivins, and others. These liberals seem to have pretty good grounds for being mad about the way things have been going over the past...

Alcohol on America’s campuses

By Maroon Editorial Staff / October 28, 2003

America has always had a bittersweet relationship with alcohol. Prohibition in the 1920s displayed that America, though Puritanical in its underlying beliefs, cannot subsist long without its favorite drug. More than half a century later, another spike in conservatism pushed the legal drinking age to 21 in every state. Today, college underclassmen slink in back...

Shirts, like relationships, are hard to keep clean

By Persis Elavia / October 23, 2003

While washing dishes in the abhorrent house I lived in this past summer, I was watching a neighboring frat boy jump around on his roof while talking on the phone. Trying to figure out how he climbed up that high in those ridiculous shoes of his, I didn’t notice that I had the water pressure...