Opinion

Opinion

President Bush could not please everyone

By Jong Eun Lee | November 20

After eight years, George W. Bush's administration is finally coming to an end. As someone who has both respected and criticized President Bush throughout the years, I have been thinking for some time how I will judge his legacy. While Bush's presidency will continue to be controversial, for me these eight years have demonstrated Bush's failure at centrism; a seemingly strategic amalgamation of policies across the political spectrum has led to an unsustainable, circumscribed political philosophy that perhaps manifested the worst of both political ideologies.

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Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

By Alex Knepper | November 20

Now that he no longer has to pretend to be a tax-cutting, corruption-busting, lobbyist-defying, bipartisan agent of reform, our illustrious president-elect, Barack Obama, has decided that he's more interested in bringing together a team of people who will ensure that he doesn't do anything stupid than he is in bringing about any sort of fundamental change.

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Opinion

JAMS policies need clarification

November 20

Recent AU administration attempts to communicate the university's alcohol policies are admirable but are in no way sufficient. The Student Advocacy Center hosted several administrators from various AU offices Tuesday in an attempt to address the issues. According to reports from the event, attendance was sparse.

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Opinion

GOP needs to change with the times

By Jacob Shelly | November 17

After a historic route, the Republican Party seems to have been reduced to a few dead-enders in the South. As a partisan Democrat, I might be out of line offering advice to my ideological opponents.

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Opinion

Haun's argument on vegetarianism is "illegitimate"

By Josh Loigman | November 17

The Nov. 11 op-ed by William Haun that appeared in The Eagle denouncing Bon Appetit for participating in peta2's vegetarian-friendly campus contest was conveyed as an expression of concern with regards to AU's decision-making. In reality, it was little more than a quasi-concealed attempt at vilifying vegetarianism and animal rights in general.

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Opinion

Obama ed. policy needs nuance

November 17

President-elect Barack Obama recently announced some specifics regarding his education plan. Among marked reforms to the primary and secondary education systems, Obama has proposed a $4,000-per-year credit for students who attend public universities, provided they commit to and fulfill 100 hours of community service that year.

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Opinion

Politics for the post-partisan president

By Charlie Szold | November 17

During George W. Bush's presidency, the Republican Party has done what political parties have been doing since their formation shortly after the ratification of the U.S. Constitution - they clawed, scratched and attacked members of the opposing party. In this way they were no different than Thomas Jefferson, who used public money to employ a newspaper editor who attacked George Washington for his monarchist tendencies; or from Alexander Hamilton, who used his prolific pen while serving as secretary of the Treasury to attack James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and all other "Republicans" for their slave-holding hypocrisy.

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Opinion

Corrections

November 13

Correction for Nov. 10 In the corrections from the Nov. 10 issue, The Eagle incorrectly corrected the listing of organizations that co-sponsored the Nov. 4 Election Night Extravaganza. The organizations that co-sponsored the event are: The Student Government, AU College Democrats, AU College Republicans, AU Students for Obama, AU Students for McCain, SAVE, Alpha Nu Omega, Inc.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor: Will Haun should try some cruelty-free veggie options

By Max Fischlowitz-Roberts | November 13

There are a number of disturbing inaccuracies in a recent op-ed ("AU wrong to promote PETA and 'vegetarian lifestyle,'" Nov. 10). First, the author should know that no one is "shoving anything down his throat," least of all "far left ideology." Animal advocates come from across the political spectrum; the organization I'm interning for this semester, the Humane Society Legislative Fund, endorses Democratic and Republican candidates for political office based solely on their stances on animal issues.

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Opinion

Obama: The post-media president

By Tony Romm | November 13

It is post-Baby Boomer, post-partisan, post-racial, and most importantly, post-Bush. And add to that list of unfounded hyperboles one new construction: "post-media." Throughout the 2008 horse race, now-President-elect Barack Obama demonstrated a proclivity toward digital media.

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Opinion

Laptop ban would go too far for colleges

November 13

Stop. What are you doing? Reading the paper. But what else? Facebook? Homework? Music? On the phone with a friend? If all you're doing right now is absorbing this article, you aren't being productive. Or at least it's tempting to think that way. Every student knows there aren't enough hours in the day to get everything done.

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Opinion

Nov. 4th was only the beginning

November 13

With the election now more than a week past, the excitement in the halls of Mary Graydon Center and on the expanses of the National Mall has ebbed slightly and allowed a clearer, less emotional picture of the election to emerge. One of the most interesting and most important stories lines to emerge since Nov.

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Opinion

Speciesism and racism not so different

By Mark Devries | November 13

AU's promotion of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has inadvertently hit on what may be the most important ethical issue of our time. This claim rests on a simple but earth-shattering argument: All concepts of ethics, from liberal ideologies to conservative ones, from the ethical theories of John Rawls to Immanuel Kant, share one common thread - causing harm is bad.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor: Honoring our student-soldiers on Veterans Day

By Charlie Fowler | November 13

The Veteran Student. We are from every state and from many countries. We are older, we are married and unmarried; many of us have children. We come from all walks of life, we speak many languages, we represent every race, creed, color, religion and sexual orientation.

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Opinion

Don't judge the library by its ugliness

By Carl Seip | November 10

AU students need to focus on benefits of this university, not the detriments. We're too often focused on the negatives, looking, begging for something to criticize or call out. Let's be honest - who hasn't complained about the Terrace Dining Room, Public Safety, Financial Aid, the dorms, bureaucracy, the list goes on and on.

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Liberals try to re-write leadup to Iraq War

By Alex Knepper | November 10

Many Americans today take the idea that the Iraq War was a terrible mistake as an axiom. It has become distressingly commonplace to hear of President Bush's "lies" in making the case for war, that the reasons for invading Iraq were flimsy and circumstantial, or, worse, outright deceptive.

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Corrections for Nov. 6, 2008

November 10

In "Campus rallies around Obama," The Eagle incorrectly stated that only the Kennedy Political Union had sponsored the Election Night Extravaganza. The AU Student Government and AU College Democrats co-sponsored the event with KPU. In the international brief "Hanoi surprise floods kill thousands," The Eagle incorrectly reported that floods in Vietnam had killed 44,000 people.

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