Opinion

• The importance of free expression

  Oct 3, 2006comments

  Too many courses at the University of Colorado indoctrinate students at their expense. The students should be educated instead. The dictionary defines indoctrination an instruction in a principle or ideology to imbue with a specific partisan... read more »

   

• Prevention is key for school safety

  Sep 29, 2006comments

  Columbine should have provided a wake-up call The images are too familiar. Seven years has done very little to dispel the terror our generation still feels when words and phrases like “Columbine” and “school shooting”... read more »

   

• Lasher: Buffs must learn to finish

  Sep 24, 2006comments

  Second half lapses haunt Buffs in heartbreaking losses In the sea of football clich

   

• UCSU up to no good again

  Sep 24, 2006comments

  Partisan stunt comes as no surprise They almost did it. Some of the people on our University of Colorado Student Union almost pulled a complete partisan stunt to endorse Democrat Bill Ritter to be Colorado’s next governor. Some members... read more »

   

• Zen and the art of slacklining

  Sep 23, 2006comments

  It looks almost like a dance. Hands wave from side to side overhead as his feet glide over the webbing, seeming to float in the air with ethereal grace. At the end of the line he turns sideways, bounces once as if on a trampoline and becoming... read more »

   

• The value of racism and the harm of bigotry

  Sep 20, 2006comments

  Humorous racism can benefit society. Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock are humorous racists. They evoke laughter by analyzing society through a racial lens. Chappelle recently concluded a comedic tour this summer. Much of his performance rests on... read more »

   

• Facebook changes make a sad statement about college students

  Sep 15, 2006comments

  These past two weeks, students put a collective foot down. We were wronged, and we weren’t going to stand by and let it continue without a fight. We were offended, we wanted change, and we did something about it. Hundreds of thousands... read more »