Johnson is a first-year Ph.D. student in the clinical psychology program. By Chris Johnson The degree of intellectual conformity in university settings regarding matters of culture and politics is truly ironic. The ’60s “progressives,” whom so many young students now seek to emulate, had one important characteristic which is embarrassingly absent from modern student discourse: the insatiable desire to “question.” A quick sampling of campus editorials exposes the same tired battle cries of class warfare, racism and sexism. Read more...

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  Shirin Vossoughi Vossoughi is a third-year history and American literature and culture student. Speak your mind and e-mail her at [email protected]. Having just returned from a semester abroad in Cuba, I thought to myself ““ if people could only see the destruction and poverty caused by U.S. Read more...

Jones is a second-year political science student. By Andrew Jones It is no triumph that death sentences are routinely carried out, or even that such a device is necessary within our society. Read more...

Katz is a first-year history student. By Erin N. Katz In this imperfect world it is hard to believe that people still cling to an institution like capital punishment, a system that has proven time and again to be faulty and racist. Read more...

  Chris Diaz Diaz is a second-year political science and Asian American studies student with an English minor. E-mail him at [email protected]. Click Here for more articles by Chris Diaz Just last week 13-year-old Lionel Tate was convicted for the brutal beating of a 6-year-old girl named Tiffany Eunick. Read more...

Sapozhnikov is a first-year microbiology and molecular genetics student. By Igor Sapozhnikov Have you noticed that society is becoming more conservative? Examples such as “parental advisory” labels on music, ratings for television programs and the ever-increasing opposition to abortion and gay rights suggest that America is casting a widening eye of judgment on social interaction. Read more...