Opinion

Opinion

More focus needed on Gov. Palin's politics

By Rachel Lincoln | September 22

There is more to Sarah Palin than just a pretty face. The nomination of Gov. Palin, R-Alaska, as John McCain's running mate certainly caught everyone's attention, yet she remains relatively unknown - except for her lipstick joke, designer glasses and hot new action figure.

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Letter to the editor: Knepper proves himself ethnocentric

By Kristopher Pengelly | September 22

Alex Knepper provides readers with little evidence to believe that "the West has won." I take issue with his opinion on two critical areas. First, while Western values might espouse cultural elements of tolerance, secularism, equality and reason, it is hardly synonymous with the achievement of these ideals.

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Opinion

Student Metro discounts

September 22

Recent progress towards a discounted student Metro pass is good news for all D.C. area college students. After years of talk and limited action the idea gained traction when student governments from many area colleges started working together towards this common goal.

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Letter to the editor: Knepper sets up straw man

By Barnaby Yeh | September 22

Columnist Alex Knepper sets up a straw man when he claims that liberals are concerned more with gay marriage in the West than anti-homosexual persecution in other countries such as Iran. He ignores the numerous causes championed by the left long before they were mainstream, such as genocide in Darfur, torture in former Soviet states, and child trafficking in Southeast Asia.

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Letter to the editor: Inferiority is in the eye of the xenophobic

By Doug Paddock | September 22

Alex Knepper's Sept. 18 opinion demonstrates an ethnocentric, xenophobic, and dare I say it, racist attitude. His article serves no purpose other than to denigrate and alienate other cultures and create an "us versus them" mentality. His assertion that "the West" is somehow "superior" and that other cultures are "inferior" is outrageous.

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Letter to the editor: Knepper's analysis of multiculturalism is 'distorted'

By Mihkail Romanov | September 22

In his Sept. 18 column on multiculturalism, Alex Knepper puts forward a distorted analysis of the ideology behind the policies of multiculturalism. Knepper's claim that multiculturalists "pretend that all cultures are equally valid in the struggle towards progress" is a slap in the face - to anyone that has studied the subject.

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Letter to the editor: Staff editorial needs to focus on AU issues

By P.W. Brusoe | September 22

Dear Editor: I am writing to you about the opinion piece published by this paper on Thursday September 18th, 2008, entitled "Palin Wiffs on Abstinence only Education." The issue of abstinence-only education versus "comprehensive sex education" is a good policy debate, and one that we as Americans should engage in.

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Opinion

The Eagle needs to improve reporting

By Carl Seip | September 22

Last Thursday, The Eagle reported that Housing and Dining is in the development stages of a new program named EagleEye, which "will gather information about resident students' personal life, academics, social life and overall AU experience that AU officials will then track.

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Opinion

Corrections for Sept. 18, 2008

September 22

In a breaking news alert published Sept. 18, "Housing and Dining to conduct new student monitoring program," The Eagle incorrectly reported which students would be encouraged to have individual meetings with resident assistants. Only freshmen will have three meetings a year.

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Opinion

Can you be pro-life and pro-Obama?

By Jong Eun Lee | September 18

There are many times at church when my fellow churchgoers will ask me: "How could a Christian like you support pro-abortion candidate like Obama?" While such criticism would normally prompt me to defend Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's position as best as I could, the fact remains that there are issues on which we disagree.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor

September 18

I appreciated Dave Stone's "U.S. Needs to Get It's Priorities Straight" and its aim to start a discussion of U.S. strategic priorities. I personally think this year's political candidates haven't focused enough on broad issues such as how to prioritize overall federal spending, and I hope more articles like his begin to appear in major publications as the election nears.

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Letter to the editor

By Danny Steinberg | September 18

I normally don't find myself reading opinion articles in "The Scene" section of The Eagle, but today I happened to shoot a glance at Jordan Coughenour's article this week. As my eyes moved down the page, I was appalled, disgusted and horrified at the same at what I saw.

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Western culture is ahead of the curve

By Alex Knepper | September 18

As with most of the positions members of the "compassionate" and "nonjudgmental" intelligentsia take, multiculturalism is exclusively the domain of wealthy, mostly white intellectuals, as opposed to people who deal with actual problems. Multiculturalism is the doctrine that it is not proper to negatively judge how any society conducts its affairs.

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Palin wiffs on sex education

September 18

Sarah Palin's support for abstinence-only education is out of touch with young people in general and her children in particular. Especially now that her own 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, you would think that she would realize how dangerous an abstinence-only education can be to young people.

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Opinion

Thumbs up...thumbs down

September 18

Thumbs up.... ... to multiple orgasms. The ladies do the birthing, they deserve the pleasure. ... to the Leonard Hall Lounge redesign. Maybe people will want to live there now. Thumbs down.... ... to blue balls. If you don't finish the doctor says ... "Beat it .

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Letter to the editor

By Ashley Evans | September 15

While I understand Ms. Lincoln's frustration at the different challenges faced by the different genders, I think it is important to focus on the big picture. In the case of the HPV vaccine, that big picture is the more than 11,000 women who will be diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2008.

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Opinion

College voting controversy

September 15

College students are already in an unprecedented position to influence the outcome of this November's presidential election. The media, the pundits and the candidates themselves have made that quite clear with their coverage and courting of the youth vote.

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