On Wednesday, Jan. 28, in Washington, D.C., the Democratic Caucus released its updated Democratic Principles on Immigration. The update was prompted by President George W. Bush’s Jan. Read more...

By Gideon Baum The university is, both by nature and design, a place where the great issues of our time are debated and struggled over. Some disputes, such as the Skinner-Chomsky language acquisition debate, remain unanswered and esoteric. Read more...

Construction on Hill will help students In response to Katharine Jensen’s column, “Construction a necessary evil” (Jan. 20), I’d first like to correct that construction on campus is limited to the hours of 7:00 a.m. Read more...

In the story about construction on the Hill, “Hill construction fails to build” (News, Jan. 21), Hedrick Hall is singled out as being a residence hall with so many disadvantages that there couldn’t possibly be anything good about living at the “top of the Hill.” This is an unfair assessment. Read more...

The presidential primaries and the upcoming elections have unlocked the dormant issue of public education and thrust it into the limelight. In his State of the Union address, President Bush reaffirmed his support for the No Child Left Behind Act. Read more...

The Supreme Court announced this week that it will soon hear a new case, Roper v. Simmons, regarding the constitutionality of executing minors. For years, the high court has tacitly approved of executing teenagers who were at least 16 years old when they committed their crime by allowing states to set their own minimum age limit. Read more...

Lawsuits often represent the last desperate gasps of those unwilling to take real, substantive actions. Case and point, the Recording Industry Association of America sued 532 more people last week for illegal file sharing. Read more...