Spring Break
In 1872, Congress passed a mining law allowing the federal government to sell mineral-rich public lands to mining companies for just $2.50 or $5 per acre. This sale process, known as a patent, was created to encourage mid-western settlement and to promote the mining industry.
The Bush administration maintains with its original fervor that the best strategy to uproot the insurgency in Iraq is to establish a firm democratic government. Somehow, through his repetitive and insipid rhetoric, President George W. Bush has raised a rather interesting question concerning the very nature of the insurgency's offensive and, inversely, democracy's role in Iraq's future.
For reasons too mind-bendingly intricate and treacherously libelous to gloss over here, I unexpectedly found myself at a church last Friday night attending a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous. The experience was a novel one for me, though not something I would ever make a habit of.
Jack Thompson, a Miami, Fla. medical malpractice lawyer, has spent more than 10 years protesting video game violence. Recently, however, he offered $10,000 to anyone who would make and market one of the most violent video games I have ever heard of. This, of course, is Thompson's idea of satire.
This is a rebuttal to the letter Cara Reardon wrote about Brad Zambrello's article "Save the Strippers." Ms. Reardon advocates in her article, "[what] I'm more concerned about is the nature of the job, the basic actions that are involved [in stripping.]" What Ms.
Can someone please tell all the girls on campus still wearing skirts in 50 degree weather that it's not cute? I'm amazed how many workers I see around campus cleaning up the fall leaves, which I find to be pretty on the campus ground. I'm just wondering where these workers go when there are four feet of snow on the ground and everyone is trying to make it to class.
