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December 25, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Opinion

Opinion

A nomination for one more armed services alum to profile

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To the Editor: I am sure you have your remaining alumni set for your three-part series ("ROTC alum commands army base in Afghanistan," May 2; "'Adventurous' graduate trains, may head to Iraq," May 1), but on the outside chance you are still researching, look up Mike Lauria '05.


Opinion

SA Platforms: Realism Over Idealism

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After I received several Facebook group invitations just hours after campaigning had officially begun last week, it was clear that the race for next year's Student Assembly leadership was well underway.


Opinion

Ain't Nuthin' But a Blame Game

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Last week, in an event sponsored by the Sexual Assault Awareness Program and the Afro-American Society, a discussion was held concerning the influence of hip-hop music on issues of race, gender, sexuality and violence.




Opinion

The "brain gain" in American industry

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To the Editor: In his letter to the editor, Andrew Eastman '07 asks, "Are there not 'intelligent, capable' workers born in the States?" ("Foreign nationals and American firms," April 25). He thinks there are enough skilled workers in the U.S.


Opinion

Looking Into Their Eyes

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After it became clear that the massacre in Blacksburg, Va., would take its place in severity alongside the worst shootings in American history, the question that increasingly weighed on my mind was what the shooter looked like.



Opinion

A Better Left

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It has been said that liberals are very broadminded. They are always willing to give careful consideration to all sides of the same side. In the wake of the ongoing discussion on campus activism in these pages, I cannot help but see some truth in that statement.


Opinion

Make It 18

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Did you get wasted this weekend? Are you under the age of 21? Don't fret, my underage friends, you are not alone.


Opinion

Updating the Second Amendment

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Albert Camus once wrote a short story, and then an expanded play, entitled "The Misunderstanding." In this story -- the plots of the play and short story are identical -- a boy becomes estranged from his mother and sister in a rural town somewhere.



Opinion

Changing the climate of debate

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The discussion sponsored by the Sexual Assault Awareness Program and the Afro-American Society on Wednesday night provided a forum for constructive and introspective dialogue about the presence and effects of racism and sexism in rap lyrics.Participants bypassed the Don Imus controversy to critically evaluate the underlying issues and their potential solutions.


Opinion

Sun: The New Beer

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Something new showed up on our campus last week, other than prospies "for the plundering" (as I overheard it at Palaeopitus). No, it wasn't the supple skin and innocent giggles of prospective '11's that excited my gentlemanly interest, but the short skirt of an even more elusive mistress: our distant neighbor, the sun. Yes, it was a blast to stand in front of the room before my classes and tell the prospies that I was the professor, and shout at them for not having the registrar's permission to be in my class, and that no, their tears wouldn't melt my adamantine professorial heart.


Opinion

Confessions of an Upperclass UGA

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After reading Daniel Belkin's column, "Do Upperclassmen Need UGAs?" (April 25), I must only come to the conclusion that his anonymous Undergraduate Advisor, "Pat," is not a particularly successful or happy UGA.


Opinion

Foreign nationals and American firms

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I read Chris Chan '07's op-ed ("Lady Liberty's Lottery," April 24) and was generally sympathetic until one paragraph: "The United States may be protecting its workers from international competition but it is also crippling its own economy by keeping intelligent, capable workers out... and placing a cap on the value that its firms can produce." This implies that there aren't enough native-born Americans to fill these "intelligent" positions; are there not "intelligent, capable" workers born in the States?


Opinion

Do Upperclassmen Need UGAs?

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It's not that I haven't liked my Undergraduate Advisors during my sophomore and junior years. Without a doubt, I enjoy the sugary surprises my UGA randomly leaves at the foot of my door.


Opinion

Live (Sugar) Free or Pay

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New Hampshire State Rep. Catherine Mulholland doesn't want you to eat Snickers bars anymore. A few weeks ago, Mulholland, D-Grafton, sponsored a new bill to establish a tax on candy that was, fortunately for us, stalled in the New Hampshire state legislature.