Strength in organized protest

By Wesley Pegden / November 26, 2002

In the November 15 issue of the Maroon, two articles appeared in Viewpoints, originating from different political positions and addressing separate issues, which nevertheless shared an unfortunate commonality. Both John Lovejoy and Christopher Meeske dodged the task last Friday of backing up what they mistakenly represent as fact, replacing what could be the presentation of...

This place will eat you up

By Tom Zimpleman / November 26, 2002

By Tom Zimpleman Maroon Viewpoints Staff I would like to extend a cautious word of congratulations to the members of the Class of 2006: thus far you have not fallen prey to the temptation that has bedeviled so many of your fellow students. I am speaking, of course, of the temptation to complain about the...

Acts of Student Government

By Enrique Gmez / November 22, 2002

The topic of Student Government’s most recent meeting with President Don Randel dealt with two critical issues pertaining to student life: the financial health of the University and the rising costs of education. The substance of the conversation was both informative and important for students to know. First, Student Government informed Randel of student concern...

Diplomacy… and other means

By Justin Palmer / November 22, 2002

Many people have mapped out how we should fight the war on terrorism, but few have actually thought about what a victory by the West would end in. Al Qaeda’s loose structure means that there will probably be no official end to the war, but rather a situation similar to World War II, in which...

Reflecting on the Mideast

By George Anesi / November 22, 2002

In any serious and long-lasting conflict, it is sometimes necessary to take a step back. The goal of doing so is to remove the tunnel-vision effect that tends to plague both participants and observers of such a conflict. In the current Israeli-Palestinian crisis, we must stop examining the seemingly endless cycle of an Israeli invasion...

Prudence and Foresight

By Sener Akturk / November 22, 2002

This is Baghdad: November 19, 2025. Three soldiers enlisted in the American contingent of the Republican Guards are patrolling Ar Rasafah, the section of the city that includes the U.S. embassy on the one side, and the Sheraton and Palestine hotels on the other, and faces the Presidential Palace shining on the other side of...

Faculty have ideologies

By Ramesh Reddy / November 22, 2002

When 97 faculty members attacked Campus Watch, they claimed to be concerned with protecting political debate on campus. The faculty members wrote that pro-Israel forces want to stifle the free exchange of ideas on campus, correctly stating that “ethical charges are often mustered to occlude or preclude political debate, and there is no question that...

Students need convictions

By David Noah / November 22, 2002

Polemics are the stock trade of students, especially ones who are brash and fairly intelligent. But in our discourses, such as the debates printed in the Maroon about Israel or conservatism versus liberalism, we lack the sort of sober-minded approach that lends credence to an argument. Even worse, the strident claims we make often lack...

Recent ads take the low road

By The Maroon Staff / November 19, 2002

During the last week, The Chicago Maroon ran two advertisements paid for by an anti-Palestinian organization. Using crude images, these ads purported to generalize, misrepresent, and then condemn the aspirations of the entire Palestinian population. One ad juxtaposed a golden-haired, triumphant Israeli athlete with a dark and grizzled Palestinian gunman; the first, the ad asserted,...

Liberals don’t get conservatism

By John Lovejoy / November 19, 2002

Apparently my column of two weeks ago (“Liberals need to listen,” November 5) made blood boil. I’m disappointed, because I was really hoping to incite a response like shaking of fists, or ideally, wailing and gnashing of teeth. The individual whose hemocytes I raised to such a tizzy, Igor Serbreyana, saw fit to respond to...

Untruth in advertising

By The Maroon Staff / November 19, 2002

Recently, the Maroon has received a great deal of criticism for our decision to print, in both issues from last week, a paid advertisement from a website known as campustruth.org, which presented a biased and hateful view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Quite frankly, our decision to accept the advertisement was mistaken, and we feel that...

Liberals, use different tactics

By Chris Meeske / November 19, 2002

We live in a deeply and profoundly troubled world. Living in America, a nation with unique wealth and power, insulated by both distance and prosperity, it has become far too easy to embrace the status quo. In the recent midterm elections, voters were asked to express their approval or disapproval for the course of the...