Opinion

Opinion

Speciesism and racism not so different

By Mark Devries | November 13

AU's promotion of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has inadvertently hit on what may be the most important ethical issue of our time. This claim rests on a simple but earth-shattering argument: All concepts of ethics, from liberal ideologies to conservative ones, from the ethical theories of John Rawls to Immanuel Kant, share one common thread - causing harm is bad.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor: Honoring our student-soldiers on Veterans Day

By Charlie Fowler | November 13

The Veteran Student. We are from every state and from many countries. We are older, we are married and unmarried; many of us have children. We come from all walks of life, we speak many languages, we represent every race, creed, color, religion and sexual orientation.

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Opinion

Don't judge the library by its ugliness

By Carl Seip | November 10

AU students need to focus on benefits of this university, not the detriments. We're too often focused on the negatives, looking, begging for something to criticize or call out. Let's be honest - who hasn't complained about the Terrace Dining Room, Public Safety, Financial Aid, the dorms, bureaucracy, the list goes on and on.

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Opinion

Liberals try to re-write leadup to Iraq War

By Alex Knepper | November 10

Many Americans today take the idea that the Iraq War was a terrible mistake as an axiom. It has become distressingly commonplace to hear of President Bush's "lies" in making the case for war, that the reasons for invading Iraq were flimsy and circumstantial, or, worse, outright deceptive.

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Opinion

Corrections for Nov. 6, 2008

November 10

In "Campus rallies around Obama," The Eagle incorrectly stated that only the Kennedy Political Union had sponsored the Election Night Extravaganza. The AU Student Government and AU College Democrats co-sponsored the event with KPU. In the international brief "Hanoi surprise floods kill thousands," The Eagle incorrectly reported that floods in Vietnam had killed 44,000 people.

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Opinion

Bookstores suffer with economy

November 10

AU can be quite a bubble. We're relatively isolated in our pastel northwest corner of D.C., and if you never venture away from the manicured lawns and quaint facades, it would be easy to miss the signs of a wider economic slowdown. The credit crisis and the looming recession seem concerns fit only for the headlines in the morning paper.

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Opinion

AU wrong to promote PETA and 'vegetarian lifestyle'

By William J. Haun | November 10

As a senior at AU, I am no stranger to our school's attempts to demonstrate tolerance for "alternative" foods and lifestyles by shoving far left ideology down our throats. This time however, the university is literally doing just that. Bon Appetit, AU's official food service (the company that gives us those questionable delectables in TDR), in its attempt to develop an "environmentally friendly" food service, has been attempting to gain the praise of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a not-so-mainstream "animal rights" group.

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Opinion

Political pendulum will swing to GOP

By Jong Eun Lee | November 6

Obama has won. With these three words, the AU campus (and many parts of the country) erupted in cries of jubilation from millions of Obama supporters who were thrilled that after two years of a long campaign, they have finally brought the "change they want.

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Opinion

Eagle staffers muse on the importance of Obama's first six months in office ...

November 6

Much as supporters demanded the then-Illinois senator to legislate from the campaign trail and address such crucial issues as the financial bailout, voters will similarly expect President-elect Obama to begin implementing his reforms long before he's actually president.

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Opinion

Landslide losses will refocus GOP

By Alex Knepper | November 6

Well, there you have it. None of what happened was unexpected. If anything, the Republican Party managed to over-perform certain expectations, as Sens. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and probably Gordon Smith, R-Ore., Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, and Norm Coleman, R-Minn.

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Opinion

What Obama means for America

November 6

Tuesday's election was a momentous occasion in the history of the United States. Of course, the Dow Jones Industrial Average didn't drop 900 points, Florida's vote didn't need to be recounted and New York wasn't under attack; all of these moments were historic, but they were historic for the wrong reasons.

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Opinion

Let students keep their money

November 6

Big surprise. Tuition at AU and colleges across the United States will rise faster than inflation ... again. Next year, our $31,816 tuition will increase 6 percent to approximately $34,000. Nationally, tuition will only increase an average of 2.4 percent. We can only hope that the extra $2,000 each student will owe goes to something worthwhile.

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Opinion

The 44th President of the United States

By Jen Calantone | November 6

Tuesday night, I did not sit down in my apartment and watch election returns with my friends. I did not sit and watch states like Virginia, Ohio and Florida turn from red to blue. I did not cry, whether out of fear or out of hope, when President-elect Barack Obama won the race against Republican nominee John McCain.

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Opinion

Letter to the editor: Concerning the African- American studies program

By Brandi Mirzakhani and Seth Cutter | November 3

One of the Student Government's foremost policy initiatives this year is to see the adoption of an African American studies program in the College of Arts & Sciences. As a community that values, seeks and affirms diversity, AU must look beyond solely programming for the many cultures we celebrate on campus.

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Opinion

McCain has earned election victory

By Michael Cartier | November 3

Undecided about your choice in this election? Our next president will either be The Messiah or Rambo. One vice presidential candidate seems to live in Disneyland, while the other, due to "rhetorical flourishes," has disappeared into the Witness Protection Program.

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Opinion

Corrections for October 27, 2008

November 3

In "Free speech forum angers AU students," The Eagle incorrectly reported that there are 1.5 million Muslims worldwide. The number of Muslims worldwide is actually between 1.3 and 1.4 billion. Additionally, the same article stated that many audience members booed and snickered.

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Opinion

McCain campaign blundered all the way

By Jacob Shelly | November 3

One of the unfortunate tendencies in presidential elections is to ascribe too much credit to the victor's political strategists and to malign the loser's strategists with too much blame. Past Democratic presidential nominees Al Gore and John Kerry are both belittled as wooden bores who couldn't connect with America and couldn't compete with the genius of Republican strategist Karl Rove.

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