Opinion

Editorial cartoon

Age of innocence teaches us a lesson

Since she is on the brink of adolescence, and then adulthood where she will discover all the disappointments we blame on "growing up" - I want to say to my little sister: don't lose your young, hopeful, optimism. Before you become grossly self-involved and self-loathing like the rest of us, I want it in writing that once, when you were very young, you saw only the good in people.

Correction for Feb. 16

The dates for the Founders' Week calendar were one week off. Founders' Week occurs this week. The Eagle regrets the error.

Bloggers are putting me out of a job

I would like to thank the Academy. You know, for highlighting the growing irrelevance of award shows. I'm not saying my eyes won't be glued to the screen Sunday night; but I am saying that it's more likely that I, and many others, will be watching with a keen eye for snark.

Small change, big trouble

The march to turn college students back into children continues throughout the United States. We can die in Iraq, fight in Afghanistan and vote to elect the President of the United States - we cannot, however, control who sees our personal information and records.

Letter to the editor: AU students have lost that activist feeling

I am among the students who remember when Pura Vida first came to the Mary Graydon Center. I also remember the fight to bring it to campus over another Starbucks. Pura Vida embodied the AU student body and arguably the vision of our university. It not only espoused values of fair trade and fair wages in an increasingly neo-liberal world that favored cheaper labor in a race to the bottom.

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

Thumbs Up To... ... Vinyl records. It's true you can't fit eight gigs of music on a record. But you can't fit the record sound on any iPod ever made. We salute those iconic crackles, static-y silences and the now burnt-out bands who made the LP boogie. ...

Correction for Feb. 12

In "Clubs find peace through Frisbee," the next Ultimate Peace event was incorrectly reported as being scheduled to take place Feb. 22. In fact, the event will be held March 22. The Eagle regrets the error.

Copyright conundrum

Copyright law doesn't usually attract much attention from the college crowd, until it threatens their quality of life. There has been much controversy recently about whether musical artists who create mash-ups - new works that borrow samples from a number of sources - are in violation of fair use policy.

Strong liberal needed on high court

In 2005, the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist and the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor marked the end of an 11-year-long drought of Supreme Court vacancies. Last week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized for pancreatic cancer - a reminder that several more Supreme Court justices may be approaching the end of the their careers.

Op-Ed: American money does Colombia no good

No AU student is a stranger to country-dropping. We constantly toss our abroad experiences into conversation, creating this constant dialogue on who went where and when, and the way that people and parties and politics operate in said country. While I've made my fair share of contributions to this discourse, my latest international escapade made a much more significant impact than any drunken night in Barcelona or intellectual afternoon at the Louvre.

I am gay. I am a Republican. So what?

I am a gay Republican. I am not "self-hating." I am not confused. I am comfortable enough with my sexuality to think of myself in terms of traits other than simply my sexual orientation. I believe that my attraction to the same sex should have no bearing to my thoughts on tax policy, trade, foreign affairs or abortion.

Letter to the editor: Professor Rossiter: Global warming far from fact

I am pleased that in response to the concerns that I raised in a letter to The Eagle (2/9) Kelly Nolin of the Center for Teaching Excellence admits (letter, 2/12) that it is "provocative" for CTE to encourage AU professors to "require students to undertake actions to reduce their ecological footprint [and] encourage students to pressure their congressional representatives to enact environmental protection measures.

New dorm security not worth cost

It only takes one ugly incident to remind those living in the dorms that their living quarters are far from invulnerable. Thankfully, AU has not had such an incident in quite some time. The worst that dorm-dwellers have to deal with are untimely fire alarms and the occasional petty vandalism.

Satire: "Okay, we're done here," says SIS construction crew

AU's new School of International Service building is complete, according to contractors. "Wow. It's amazing to finally be done," Project Foreman Chris Nelson said as he peered down into the huge, gaping hole his crew dug. "It took us more than a year, but now the final phase-cementing the crane in the middle of the hole - is complete.

Op-Ed: AU needs to offer more credits off-campus

"It's too expensive." This is the first statement made by hundreds, if not thousands, of students who are admitted to AU each year. The university justifies the cost by emphasizing the fact that we are in D.C. and the opportunities for internships are endless.

ISBN numbers aid thrifty students

Money is getting tight and college is still expensive. Any little bit of money saved is a victory for cash strapped students. Thankfully, AU's Undergraduate Senate and the U.S. Senate are keeping students in mind. The Undergraduate Senate passed a resolution Feb. 1 that called for the Campus Store to list textbook ISBN numbers online, making it easier for students to buy books online.