Opinion

Opinion

Staff editorial: Gender-neutral campus housing ... it's about time

March 8

The Undergraduate Senate recently passed a resolution to promote trans-gender issues. Most notably, the resolution explores the creation of gender-neutral floors where students can room with those of the opposite sex and use coed communal bathrooms. The idea is still in the planning stages.

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Corrections and Clarifications from March 5

March 8

Once upon a time, the environment was important, but left mostly to the elites who understood it. Scientists and other well-read professionals concerned themselves with environmental problems and advised governments on the relevant issues. This was known as the era of conservationism.

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Progressives: Don't forget your roots

By Jong Eun Lee | March 8

Last weekend, I had an opportunity to attend CPAC, the largest conservative conference in the United States. Featuring high-profile conservative celebrities such as Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity and Phyllis Schlafly, the conference inspired the attendants to stay true to the authentic conservative values and stand up against the liberal challenges.

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Terror: The Modern-Day Environmental Movement

By Erin Wildermuth | March 8

Once upon a time, the environment was important, but left mostly to the elites who understood it. Scientists and other well-read professionals concerned themselves with environmental problems and advised governments on the relevant issues. This was known as the era of conservationism.

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Staff editorial; Editorial Board Endorses SG Executive Candidates

March 5

President: Joe Vidulich Unlike the endorsements for the other positions, the endorsement for president was not necessarily an easy one to make. Voters are presented with three options: one mostly joke candidate, a write-in candidate who means well but doesn't come close to having enough experience and someone deeply entrenched in the SG.

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Primary Politics, Continued

By Jacob Shelly | March 5

Last week a reader criticized my recent prognostication on the developing presidential race for two supposed errors. My "biggest problem" was overselling Barack Obama; my "greatest mistake" was underselling the Republican field. I suggested that Obama was best positioned to capture his party's nomination because of the appeal of his inspiring message.

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Corrections and Clarifications from March 1

March 5

In an article titled "SG waives exec credit requirements," it was incorrectly stated that some members of the Undergraduate Senate favored waiving the 45-credit SG executive candidacy limit for freshman David Manzanares so the SG secretary race would not be uncontested.

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Death, Be Not Proud

By Caleb Enerson | March 5

Abortion has been legal in the United States since Roe v. Wade made it so in 1973. However, the way the pro-choice movement paints things, we're always just a step away from back-alley abortions with coat hangers if those Bible-thumping fundamentalists have their way and overturn Roe v.

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Staff editorial: Election waivers underscore limited candidate pool

March 1

After two separate votes, the Undergraduate Senate decided late Monday night to waive requirements set forth in SG bylaws and allow two students to run for SG executive positions. Freshman Alex Manzanares will be allowed to run for secretary even though he hasn't completed the required 45 credits.

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Bureaucracy, false incentives: Why welfare is broken

By Erin Wildermuth | March 1

As a libertarian, I am philosophically opposed to government transfers of wealth. Period. As a concerned citizen, though, I am more comfortable with transfers of wealth that accomplish their aims of increased equality and living standards for the poor than I am with those that don't.

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Staff editorial: Alarm policy should mirror that of alcohol transports

March 1

Two students at a college in North Carolina were recently fined $150 each for sleeping through a fire alarm. They were found when resident directors and firefighters re-entered the building to search for students. At least one AU student was faced with a similar situation.

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A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action

By Paul Perry | March 1

Now I know a little bit about how John Kerry might feel. The near victor in 2004, swift-boated and flip-flopped out of the few thousand votes necessary to win the presidency, seemed almost resurgent and among one of the leading contenders for 2008 until "the joke.

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Staff editorial: Diversity panel offers constructive approach

February 26

In response to controversial recent postings on the Daily Jolt and Facebook, several primarily black fraternities organized a "University Diversity" panel to discuss race relations on campus. Some of the 150 people in attendance came in response to a posting on The Daily Jolt by Jolt editor and Eagle editorial columnist Paul Perry.

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Staff editorial: No matter what, at least we can watch YouTube

February 26

Brigham Young University in Utah has blocked YouTube.com from its server. The Mormon school blocks all Web sites it deems to contain "pornography, adult content and violence" in order to "provide a safer environment when browsing the Internet by preventing access to inappropriate Web sites.

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Opinion

Saving Social Security

By Tom Noble | February 26

For over a year now, a theory on how to save Social Security has been bouncing around in my head. The straight-forwardness of my plan is grounded in pragmatism, yet it is strangely absent from most of the dialogue in and outside of the Beltway. I propose to gradually increase the age at which people receive benefits.

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Letter to the editor

February 26

I have never before felt embarrassed by my fellow American University students before reading the article on student-opinion of the new low-flow showerheads in the residence halls ("Showerheads prompt focus on student feedback," Feb. 22). But now, I can honestly say that I am ashamed to classify myself among them.

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Free Trade: Under Attack

By Jared Kotler | February 26

It is official. Free trade is under attack, and I can hear the cheers all around Washington, from the classrooms of AU to the halls of Congress. I find this quite ironic for two reasons. First, this university prides itself in calling on its students to find solutions to the world's problems.

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