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OPINION

HCA election poses Honors College conundrum

Ian Sams March 27, 2011

On Wednesday, students in the Honors College will elect the second president of the Honors College Assembly. In its first year, HCA carried out service projects, created student programming, and hosted...

Use HCA to engage Honors students

Letter to the Editor March 27, 2011

My name is Sarah Ann Hughes and I’m running for president of the Honors College Assembly. My vision for HCA is built on three pillars — create, connect, collaborate. Using HCA's resources and energy, I...

Make HCA an advocate for students

Letter to the Editor March 27, 2011

The Honors College Assembly has had a great first year on campus! The program has provided an event or program for students to participate in almost every week and has made great strides towards representing...

Stop gassing of shelter animals

Lu Mosley March 25, 2011

House Bill 147 and Senate Bill 172 – whether you are a Democrat, Republican or an independent – is legislation we can all agree on. And I am begging everyone to make phone calls, write letters and...

Why do we disregard the words of others?

Ben Friedman March 25, 2011

It is said that actions speak louder than words, and I mostly agree. People may spout off all the ear-tickling rhetoric they please, but their true intentions will be revealed, more often than not, through...

UA degree not a golden ticket

Xavier Burgin March 25, 2011

One of the easiest ways to annoy others is carrying a severe case of unwarranted self-importance or self-delusion. These are the individuals who believe the world owes them and the individuals whose grasp...

UA females should focus on #winning

Kingsley Clark March 24, 2011

“Twitta’s for losers, Jay; if someone wake up in the mornin’ wonderin’ what I’m doin’, they a loser.” Charles Barkley’s right. Twitter is for losers. And like so many of you ladies, I...

Group aids LGBT community

Alex Hollinghead March 24, 2011

"Be careful who you hate — it could be someone you love.” - Author Unknown Last year, the headlines were full of stories about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth who had committed suicide....

UA needs to give reasons for forcing Lai Lai off Strip

John Davis March 24, 2011

The headline on March 9 informed us that Lai Lai – the Chinese hole-in-the-wall restaurant that has called The Strip home since 1998 – would be closing, though it might as well have read “University...

Lockout should not be NFL’s biggest concern

Wesley Vaughn March 22, 2011

“Please, see that my brain is given to the [National Football Leagues]’s brain bank.” Dave Duerson left these dying words to his family before he ended his own life. That was a month ago ­— old...

U.S. action in Libya key to fostering democracy

Tray Smith March 22, 2011

The scene is familiar. Impressive missile strikes pounding a foreign land, broadcast live on televisions around the world. We saw it in Bosnia in 1995, in Iraq in 1998, in Yugoslavia in 1999. We saw it...

Potluck not a rage against Machine

Linn Groft March 22, 2011

Wesley Vaughn’s recent column mentioned the Progressive Potluck as a force of change on campus. The following day, Michael Patrick’s column discussed the potluck with a similar attitude. In both instances...