Monday, January 13, 1997 OFFENSE: A free thinker unable to speak freely is nothing but a sycophantBy Jeff Lazarus The right to talk is the right to offend. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 By Stephanie Salter San Francisco Examiner As the years accumulate, I sometimes forget why I turned out the way I did. I mean, for instance, why I became a Democrat instead of a Republican or why I moved to California or never got married or prefer scotch to bourbon. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 STANDARDS: Machistas and Machos are put to the test; find out which one you should be I must preface this by saying that I love men ­ men in the definition that I will describe. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 LANGUAGES: Communication with diverse tongues may result in exclusionBy Scott Sahlman In John Lemke’s article, "Limiting word choice stifles evolution of language," he claims that having a standardized English language, aside from being illogical and inane, is elitist and propagates racism and intolerance. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 EDUCATION: Fickle youth cannot be force-fed works of The BardBy Elizabeth Schuett Cox News Service GIBSONBURG, Ohio — "Shakespeare? Oh, yeah. He’s the funny-looking dude who wrote a bunch of weird stories in a foreign language." So says one of my more voluble freshmen, whose ignorance of a topic (any topic) seldom puts his mouth on hold. Read more...

Friday, January 10, 1997 Women’s sports boring This is in response to Kathryn Manlove’s letter about women’s basketball on Jan. 7. She inaccurately identified the reason fans walked out before the women’s basketball game after the men played Kansas. Read more...

Thursday, January 9, 1997 LEADERSHIP: USAC’s good side clouded by misuse of mandatory feeBy Ben Hofilena It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that there’s something terribly corrupt about our current student government. Read more...