Opinion

Opinion

Presidential and vice presidential candidates

March 30

Rob Boisseau Class of 2006 Undergraduate Senator Junior, SPA and CAS Annapolis, Md. In brief: Too often, candidates will disregard their responsibility to offer real information about their campaigns, instead posturing and offering pretty words about their qualifications that run short beyond the first.

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Opinion

Students should pay close attention to SG candidates

By Bill Debaun | March 30

Let's look at a few numbers. $849,954. 5,782. 42. 3. In that order, these numbers are the approximate amount of money AU undergrads pay yearly through the UG Activity Fee included in their bills, the approximate number of AU undergrads, the approximate number of AU undergrads who showed up to a Town Hall meeting on Tuesday night to watch the three (yes, that's the last number) candidates up for SG President this year.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: Our choices for the SG

March 30

Every year, The Eagle interviews all candidates for Student Government executive offices and endorses one candidate for each position. The Editorial Board considers the candidates' plans for the coming year, including improvements and changes to improve student life.

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Opinion

Don't politicize Iraq casualties

By Jonathan D. McPike | March 30

Last Tuesday night, members of the Community Action and Social Justice Coalition and the Movement for Global Justice, two AU student-run groups, met outside the Kay Spiritual Life Center. Armed with cans of spray chalk and cardboard cutouts of human bodies, they outlined the figures in red "to make the campus look like a war zone," according to an e-mail from MGJ to its listserv that I obtained.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: The SAT has its faults

March 27

Who doesn't hate the SAT? While it may seem like years have passed since you had to get up early on a Saturday, and take a test to boot, the SAT is now in the hotseat. After acknowledging errors, 4,000 students were found to have been affected. Even more interesting is the fact that 100 of the 4,000 students had applied to AU.

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Opinion

Dems: Flee from this culture of cowardice

By Robert Idlett | March 27

The national Democratic Party has been timid in recent years. The Party's loss of command over the House, Senate, and White House in a period of ten years (from 1994 to today) has left it shell-shocked and risk-averse. A Party that once dominated the national debate on every issue, including national security, is now a shadow of its former self.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: No safety in seeking help

March 27

When Jordan Knotts checked himself into George Washington University Hospital in the fall of 2004, he thought he was doing himself a service. He was suffering from severe depression and was contemplating suicide. Once GW's administration caught wind of the visit, however, he was suspended and barred from campus, since he was labeled a danger to students.

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Opinion

All thumbs

March 27

Thumbs up Ladner in "Washingtonian"... We were glad to see the noted D.C. publication took note of our ex-prez's behavior. Hopefully next time they credit the photos of ours they used. Wing Bowl... AU's newest frat, Sigma Phi Epsilon, sponsored the event.

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Opinion

The mourning process of war

By Eve Gatewood | March 27

Imagine intense heat.the smell of charring human flesh and fire coming toward you like a plume, swallowing your body whole in its wake. Imagine the ubiquitous sounds of screaming, and the palpable reality of experiencing your own inevitable death. You having to make a split-second decision of whether to stay and be cremated or to jump and fall to your death in a futile effort to escape.

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Opinion

Iraq war: looking back after 3 years

March 23

As of last Sunday, U.S. armed forces have been in Iraq for three years. Media coverage of the war is still present, but the war, itself - for many without loved ones in the military or international press - has become just another part of the everyday drone, understandably.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: No more break for students at Chipotle

March 23

The popular TDR substitute Chipotle abruptly cancelled free drinks upon showing your student ID. According to the new management at Chipotle's Tenleytown location, free soft drinks were supposed to be only a limited time offer. Somehow it lasted four years.

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Opinion

Kyle Taylor fights for AU

By Jen Smyers | March 23

As a recent addition to the Board of Trustees Governance Committee as a student representative, I find it important to clarify Student Government President Kyle Taylor's role in ensuring student interests are given priority by the board. In a recent editorial, columnist Jonathan D.

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Opinion

Universities should lead the charge in Sudan divestment

By Don Cheadle and John Prendergast | March 23

For the past two and a half years, the world has watched in horror as the Sudanese government and its proxy Janjaweed militias have laid waste to Darfur. At least two hundred thousand people have died as a result of Khartoum's scorched-earth counterinsurgency tactics.

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Opinion

Staff editorial: Int'l enrollment down at US colleges

March 23

After 9/11, enrollment of international students in U.S. colleges dropped for the first time since the 1970's. The fear of terrorism was the economic hardship placed on applicants who had to jump through several legal and bureaucratic hurdles in the hope of cracking open a book in the U.

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Opinion

All thumbs

March 23

Thumbs up... AU Wrestlers... Josh Glenn and Muzaffar Abdurakhmanov earned All-American honors after competing in the NCAA Championships last week. Muzaffar took third at 165 lbs., and Glenn took fourth at 184 lbs. Congratulations, guys! Bo Kyi... The former political prisoner from Burma spoke on campus about human rights.

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Opinion

GOP offers serious black candidates

By Jong Eun Lee | March 9

I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, the voice of the ethnic minorities will be heard and represented in all political parties, whether it is red, green, or blue. For years, there were promises from the GOP that it would once again uphold Lincoln's legacy and become the party of racial inclusion.

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Opinion

All thumbs

March 9

Thumbs up... Miss Wheelchair America... The men of Pi Kappa Phi are raising money again for this noble cause. Career advice over coffee... Going to the Davenport can land you some career advice, courtesy of the Career Center. Java and jobs. Yum. SOC networking event.

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