This past Wednesday marked the start of the Lenten season, a 40-day period leading up to Easter during which Christians are asked to reflect on their own sins and the consequences of those sins. Coincidentally, many members of Calvert House, the University’s Catholic campus center, also woke up Wednesday morning to face an immediate and...

I am conservative. I came to the realization long ago that this university was overwhelmingly liberal, and that really doesn’t bother me. I also realize that Margaret Cho is liberal, and I fully accept her right to speak her opinions, even during a show that was billed as a “comedy act.” But what I don’t...

Imagine the reaction if I, as a business owner, denied jobs to blacks, Hispanics, or women simply because they were black, Hispanic, or women. Moreover, imagine the outcry if I were a government official, and I denied government jobs to blacks, Hispanics, or women based not on problems with personal character or past experience, but...

Josh Steinman’s article on former Illinois Governor George Ryan’s decision to empty death row (“Ryan Makes the Right Decision,” January 17) is saturated with statistics and empty praise, but it fails to provide a commonsense look at Ryan’s actions. Steinman falls back on the oft-repeated claims constantly parroted by liberals opposed to the death penalty:...

In his editorial published in the October 11 edition of the Maroon, George Anesi argued that the United States should shovel more money into alternative energy research, as opposed to continuing its scary dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Dictatorial and cruel Middle Eastern regimes are a clear and present danger. The majority of nations in...