Defend your peers, stand together
April 23, 2012
Last week, I utilized the first half of my final 1,500 words for this paper to issue the first half of my “senior will” for the underclassmen students of this university. In that column, I asked that they defend their rights and make their voices heard, not only to ...
Speak out instead of finding excuses
April 16, 2012
You’re almost there. You have almost reached the point where you will never again have to read any of my off-beat rants. In two weeks, my tenure with this publication will come to an end just shortly before my tenure at this university as an undergraduate student does the ...
Trayvon case highlights greater issue
April 09, 2012
Sometimes it’s funny how a single personal experience can explain or represent a much larger phenomenon.
Last week, while sitting in one of my history classes, the professor informed us that we would be discussing the Civil Rights Movement over the course of the next few lectures. So I ...
Liberal, not always environmentalist
April 02, 2012
Once upon a time, in a not so recent edition of this very column, I attacked the Occupy Wall Street movement as being frivolous and for lacking a discernible sense of direction. That particular column — like so many of the columns I have had printed in the pages of this ...
SGA elections entertain as always
March 26, 2012
I cannot explain it. I could not even begin to try to articulate my convoluted reasoning for it, but I have surprisingly been rather uncharacteristically intrigued by this year’s installment of the three ring circus that is the elections for legislative seats and executive positions in the UT SGA ...
Rush’s remarks still inflammatory
March 12, 2012
I quite often find it difficult not to quirk my brow in amazement, shake my head in surprise, and give a sardonic chuckle at the nature of American society, particularly when it comes to political discourse.
If you have gone through the arduous task of reading my rants on a ...
Personal experience meets policy
March 05, 2012
If you are a somewhat politically opinionated individual like me, you have probably experienced a particularly troublesome phenomenon at least once in the time you have been participating in political discourse. The phenomenon to which I refer is the one where you adamantly stand up for a particular side of ...
Pornography bill hides real intention
February 27, 2012
I support Internet child pornography.
OK, before you flip out, call the cops and start searching sex offender registries for a match to the horrendous picture that appears on a weekly basis next to my left-of-center blatherings, please give me a moment so that I can make an attempt to ...
Administration enjoys irrelevant SGA
February 20, 2012
I don’t like the SGA.
You must have surmised that from reading my tirades from last year around election time. I guess you read about how I find them to be a useless and powerless organization, a waste of university funding, and a blight on the face of American ...
NFL should expand to serve fan base
February 13, 2012
Thick in the midst of an election year, the thing we keep hearing about the most is the state of the American economy. From President Obama and the Democrats heralding supposedly promising statistics on job creation and a minuscule downswing in unemployment numbers, to presidential contenders in the Republican Party ...
J.C. Penney stands against prejudice
February 06, 2012
Friday, this newspaper published a wonderfully written and well-reasoned column by Wiley Robinson. The piece — titled “Better Alternative to Religion Bashing” — did a magnificent job of pointing out many of the pitfalls that exist between the opposing sides of the religious spectrum in America, namely Christians and atheists. He quite ...
No chance for amicable election year
January 30, 2012
It was the finger point heard round the world. From a highly secured tarmac in Arizona, a feisty, apparently bi-polar Republican governor stuck her highly manicured digit in the face of the most powerful man in the world and, in the process, created a firestorm that overtook American political discussion ...
Curtail Congress’ hypocrisy this spring
January 23, 2012
Spring semesters at UT have a few constants. Invariably discussions of NCAA Tournament brackets will grow rampant across campus in March, alarmingly insane fundamentalist protesters will make their return whenever the weather once again favors their escapades, and the Big Orange Farce that is the Student Government Association will hold ...
Avoid overextending holiday debt
November 28, 2011
Everyone’s family has holiday traditions, especially when it comes to Thanksgiving. Whether it is gathering around the table at Granny’s, decorating an evergreen tree almost a month before Christmas, huddling up around a big screen television to watch the Detroit Lions or the Dallas Cowboys play their annual ...
Balancing budget cuts, tuition hikes
November 21, 2011
Think back to your childhood. For most of us, there was at least one time when our parents gave us a choice in a store. Whether it was candy, toys or anything else, the conundrum was always the same: You can have this or you can have that, but you ...
