Opinion

Opinion

Ted Kennedy's legacy: winning culture wars his 1987 speech started

By Nick Field | September 9

As I watched Ted Kennedy laid to rest at the end of August, I found myself thinking about 1987. That was the year Kennedy castigated Reagan Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork.

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Opinion

Letters to the editor

September 9

President Obama kicked off United We Serve, a 12-week summer service initiative, in June by calling on all Americans to "make volunteerism and community service part of your daily life and the life of this nation."

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Opinion

Outrage over sex column confusing

September 3

To the amazement of its authors and their editors, an Eagle column this week sparked campus-wide controversy and prompted public pushback. Outraged students debated the piece in their classes. Campus organizations issued official statements of criticism. Simply put, people were peeved.

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Opinion

To fix health care, avoid ideologues, summon centerists

By Joe Wenner | September 3

It takes a certain audacity to call oneself a political moderate. I don't mean the type of person who calls himself or herself a moderate in order to either straddle the political fence and appear amenable to everyone or shroud their true ignorance of politics.

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Barack Obama may be brilliant, but federal government can only do so much

By Michael Stubel | September 2

As summer turns to fall here in our nation's capital, the bloom is off the rose for President Barack Obama. The administration is at the mercy of an unpredictable Congressional majority.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor

September 2

The AU Threesome's new sex column, "Sex-perimentation," is cause for concern.

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Opinion

Questioning proper protocol

August 30

The saga of the impeachment charges filed against Student Government Comptroller Matt Handverger will continue to unfold this week, but the SG's conduct in the early stages of this undertaking has already invited questions about protocol and communication.

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Opinion

Reform rhetoric worthless without clarification

By Alex Knepper | August 30

The 20th century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein was known for breaking down sentences and everyday terms and finding them to be fairly arbitrary in meaning. His conclusions were often rather shoddy, but his processes were frequently eye-opening. Inspired by some of his methods -- and by those of others ...

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JFK was wrong; it's time to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba

By Phil Cardarella | August 30

Nuns love John F. Kennedy. My father used to say that anyone who uttered a word against the fallen president better be prepared to have a ruler smacked upside his face. Luckily, this is a Methodist campus, so that particular measured threat (yes, I do puns) isn't much of an issue. I can safely criticize ...

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Opinion

Letters to the editor

August 30

Impeachment charges waste time, resources As a student of this university, I cannot help but feel deeply concerned and frustrated over the current ridiculous impeachment charges brought against Student Government Comptroller Matt Handverger. This is wasting time and resources of the university that ...

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Opinion

Fixing our flawed shuttle system

August 27

Most people on campus know the AU shuttle system is immensely imperfect. Buses regularly run late and arrive off-schedule. Students stand squeezed together on shuttles packed over capacity. When drivers cannot fit any more bodies on board, they leave disappointed students waiting on sidewalks.

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Opinion

"Fan can" critics wasting their time

August 27

Unnecessary outrage is annoying. It wastes time. It wastes energy. It wastes newsprint. But from time to time, newspapers needed to address it. So here's the latest craziness: More than 25 colleges in this country have filed official complaints with Anheuser-Busch, the parent company of Budweiser, ...

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Opinion

Individual liberty means freedom to buy, sell sexuality

By Phil Cardarella | August 27

I have never been a fan of Rhode Island. It's the runt of our country and last of the original colonies to accept the Constitution. Plus, I was rejected by Brown. Communists. Yet Rhode Island has one redeeming quality: legal private prostitution. The Supreme Court of Rhode Island decided that prostitution can be legal in the privacy of a home.

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Memo to liberals: don't despair on health care

By Nick Field | August 27

"There is nothing more difficult to carry nor more doubtful of success," Niccolo Machiavelli wrote, "than to initiate a new order of things." Therefore, it shouldn't be surprising that the candidate of change is having trouble selling the American people on his largest plan for reform. Americans have ...

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Opinion

Letter from the editor

By Jen Calantone | August 27

When I picked up my first copy of The Eagle, I never saw myself where I'm sitting right now. As I type, The Eagle staff is sitting here, editing articles, battling computer problems and proofing pages. So often, I forget about that Thursday morning when I grabbed the paper on my way to my 9:55 World ...

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Opinion

SG seeks better shuttle service, Metro discount

By Andy MacCracken | June 18

It's been a busy summer at AU. We've learned a lot and have been welcomed warmly by administrators as we've started moving on our initiatives. Here are some updates on what's going on. For as long as I can remember, students have been frustrated with the shuttle service.

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Opinion

New students should find life out in D.C.

By Graham Vyse | June 18

I am so awkward at frat parties. I occasionally go to them with friends who, unlike me, are in greek life, but I always feel hopelessly out of place. Truth be told, I feel more at home having a buffet breakfast at the Brookings Institution, which I sometimes do on free mornings before hearing a talk at the think tank.

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