Spring Break
Online shopping, instant rebates, pick-up windows, diet pills--all quintessential examples of America's obsession with the "quick fix". A federal struggle began yesterday over one of the most dangerous quick fixes of all-prescription antidepressant drugs. While antidepressants have helped millions of people alleviate various mental illnesses, such as bipolar disorder and chronic depression, these drugs have also been held responsible for suicidal and violent behavior, specifically in children.
In order to understand our own feelings about the death penalty, we must understand why it exists. In all of the research I've done, I've found three main supportive arguments for capital punishment: 1) it deters crime, 2) spending money to keep depraved criminals alive is both economically foolish and immoral and 3) when a human being takes the life of another, he gives up his own right to live.
Television talk show host Larry King once asked the world's smartest man, Stephen Hawking, "What worries you the most?" The great physicist responded, "My biggest worry is population growth, and if it continues at the current rate, we will be standing shoulder to shoulder in 2600.
Last week, Ross Mackinnon, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences approved the termination of the geology and geophysics department at UConn. We believe this is extremely sad, as geology was a science many of us enjoyed taking, to learn and to meet prerequisites required by the university.