The overuse of communication technology is a bad habit that many students are stuck in, but it will never replace the joy of communicating with each other and seeing the expression on people's faces.  On...

  Abolishing capital punishment should not even be an option. A certain kind of closure is provided for families of victims when the murderer of their loved one is executed. If society wants to keep...

If you have just flipped through the channels in the last month, the name Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman should be no anomaly to you. After neighborhood watch volunteer Zimmerman killed the unarmed...

The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively silenced lawsuits against unwarranted strip searches by police since authorizing the searches for those arrested for minor offenses. Normally, jailers resort to...

As educated populations of Latino youth will soon be old enough to vote, the Tucson, Ariz. school district decided to ban ethnic and Mexican American studies in retaliation for a loss of right-wing political...

I am outraged that while public schools face deep cuts and increased tuition costs, the salaries of administrators have been steadily increasing.  Although purporting that they are doing all they...

Finals. They can make you or break you. All that hard work you did over the quarter? Gone. Because of the GPA destruction they pose, I don't like finals as the sole contributor of grades.  Sure,...

This has been a fantastic start to 2012, education wise.  The old definition of fantastic, as in: incredible, imaginary, or bizarre.  First, our Board of Governors passed the Student Success...