Begin with eerie spy-movie music, red lighting and a silhouette creeping along a darkened hallway. Gunshot. No, make that two. Last week, in what felt like Cold War deja vu, newspapers carried stories of dark Russian deeds. Read more...

I’m with Bill O’Reilly on this. I’m tired of all this “Happy Holidays,” politically correct mumbo jumbo. Everyone knows December is about one holiday and one holiday only ““ there’s no need for plurals. Read more...

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Same-sex schooling a benefit for students As a former boarder at an all-boys private school and later graduate of a public co-educational school, three unsurprisingly flaccid and typical points were made in Lana Yoo’s column in her attempt to rebuke the emerging opportunities for students to choose the learning environment that best suits them (“Don’t teach the gender gap,” Nov. Read more...

I like drawing, but that doesn’t mean I do it well. So I wasn’t too offended when my friend challenged me to draw a bicycle and found I couldn’t, but then she said, “See, that’s because you’re a girl.” She didn’t say this in a condescending or defeated way, but rather matter-of-factly. Read more...

It seems that after last week’s Tasering in Powell Library, everyone has become an expert on police conduct. Each student is ready to opine on whether or not a Taser actually hurts that badly, or on whether Mostafa Tabatabainejad was actively resisting the officers. Read more...