Opinion

Opinion

Correction for October 1, 2008

October 27

In "AU students may join youth panel," The Eagle misidentified Al-Jazeera TV show host Riz Khan as an AU alumnus. Khan's wife is an AU alumna. The Eagle regrets the error.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor: Columbus is neither as good or bad as people make him out to be

By William J. Haun | October 23

With due respect to Carrie Johnson, a pro-active AU student who has expanded dialogue for the better at AU, I have to take issue with some of the assertions made in her recent letter to the editor. I, for one, do not congratulate the Undergraduate Senate for passing yet another piece of worthless paper.

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Opinion

AU can learn from GW's mistakes

October 23

George Washington University recently sent out an e-mail alert to their students to inform them of eight separate accounts of sexual assault that had been reported over the last few weeks. These e-mails are all too familiar to AU students who have had to sift through our own spate of Public Safety e-mail alerts.

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Opinion

Undecided voters need to make up their damned minds

By Dan Rosa | October 23

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" correspondents Jason Jones and Samantha Bee hosted a focus group of undecided voters for the third and final presidential debate. Their intent was to ridicule the television networks that employ such focus groups and to laugh at the indecisive, bewildered participants.

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Opinion

Democrats in for big gains come November

By Jong Eun Lee | October 23

I still remember the election four years ago when my victorious conservative friends chided me that the Republicans had a bright future as the permanent ruling party, while the out-of-mainstream Democrats were doomed to be a minority party isolated in the liberal pockets of the country.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor

By Steven Dalton | October 23

Everyone knows Columbus wasn't perfect so please stop talking. Somebody has to say it, so why not me. At first, I laughed when I read in a recent edition of The Eagle that our wonderful SG Senate was taking up - again -.... the whole "Indigenous People's Day" situation.

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Letter to the editor

By Ben D'Avanzo | October 23

I have had a number of friends ask me a rather unsettling question: Is it true that my absentee ballot will only be counted in the case of a tie? The answer, of course, is no! Absentee ballots count the same as the ballots cast at polling places on Election Day.

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Opinion

GOP in for big gains four years from now

By Alex Knepper | October 23

Is it better for the Republican Party if Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama wins? An increasing amount of evidence suggests that it may just be. Presidential nominee John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin epitomize mediocrity in the Republican Party.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor: Shelly stretches truth in last "Progressive Point"

By Mary Jane Egan | October 23

In his regular column last week, Progressive Point-maker and unapologetic Obama supporter Jacob Shelly weighed in on the development of the 2008 electoral season's debate cycle. Citing CNN and CBS poll numbers and replacing other pundits' opinions with his own, Shelly declared all of the vice presidential and presidential debates to be overwhelming Democratic victories.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor: Columbus Day isn't a day to celebrate for many

By Carrie Johnson | October 16

I would like to thank the Undergraduate Senate for passing a resolution recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day, in addition to the federal holiday Columbus Day. Members of Student Advocates for Native Communities (SANC) spoke in favor of the resolution during the senate's public comment period, and their words were strengthened with signatures from over 320 AU undergraduate students.

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Opinion

China's military strength is dangerous

By Michael Cartier | October 16

China's global strategy is focused on international supremacy. Its economic and political power increases daily, in addition to its population. While the world argues over Iraq and Afghanistan, China quietly continues its massive and unprecedented buildup of highly trained and well-equipped military forces.

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Opinion

"That's so gay" is not OK

October 16

"Man, that's so gay." No doubt you've heard that before, and it's pretty doubtful the person who said it meant it as a compliment. Anti-gay language on the whole isn't an uncommon occurrence, and it's surprising that often otherwise reasonable and unprejudiced people have used the phrase.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor: Date rape drug detectors are unreliable

October 16

In response to Ms. Lincoln's recent column on date rape drugs, we felt it pertinent to respond to some of the claims that were made since the Wellness Center is the primary provider of free sexual health materials on campus. The date rape drug detection kits that Ms.

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Opinion

Undecided voters will make final decision

By Jacob Shelly | October 16

All over the world, people have hyped the significance of this year's presidential and vice presidential debates. Australia's Canberra Times proclaimed "McCain, Obama Debates Crucial." The Guardian in London stoked the "make-or-break presidential debates." And here in the United States, viewers have tuned in at historic levels.

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Opinion

College debt adds up after school

October 13

On average, AU students graduate with $19,000 in debt - near the national average of $20,000. It is a credit to this university's financial aid system that we are under the national average for college debt, especially when one factors in AU's sticker price.

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Opinion

Use words, not bombs to protect animals

October 13

At some basic level, most of us probably feel a good measure of compassion when it comes to animals. We're not talking about die-hard animal liberation; we just mean most of us aspire to live without causing other lives to suffer disproportionately. But some people can go too far.

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Op-Ed: Politicians claim U.S. has top workers

By Dan Rosa | October 13

When John McCain asserted during last Tuesday's Presidential debate that "American workers are the best in the world," it stirred no commentary from the media, engendered no quizzical expressions from most of the tens of millions of Americans watching, and produced no controversy - and that's the problem.

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