Last week, a car struck a UM-St. Louis teaching assistant on Natural Bridge Road near the Music Building. This incident provoked questions, anger and frustration over what some consider an unsafe stretch of road. This accident serves as a wake-up call that something needs to be done to ensure this does not happen again.
Earlier this month, a Federal Appeals Court in Virginia decided that United States citizens can be locked up indefinitely if the president says so. No trial, just the word of the president. The ruling came in the case of Jose Padilla, a New York native, who was arrested with great fanfare on May 8, 2002, at O'Hare International Airport near Chicago, and held on a material witness warrant, because of alleged ties to Al Qaeda.
Last week in this space, I asked for feedback from the campus community about the newspaper. And I certainly got it. Calls, emails and stops by the office were frequent as people I knew and didn't know let me know what was on their mind. One of the calls that sticks out in my mind was from a professor of criminology who called and said that all of the newspaper's coverage of Hurricane Katrina (8 articles in the past 2 issues) was geared towards either survivors of the hurricane moving to St.
Would you pay $3.50 to learn how to "Make a Man Moan in a Minute"? As I waited in line for a cup of gas station coffee last weekend, my eye stopped on the cover of this month's Cosmopolitan magazine. In large type, a teaser headline advertised the top story: "50 ways to be a better girlfriend.
Advocates of nuclear power like to call it a "clean" alternative to coal or natural gas-fueled power plants. Opponents point out that it just trades one problem for another potentially bigger problem. Talking about nuclear power is all about tradeoffs. We must face the dilemma of nuclear power before we make a choice about it.
Don't make New Orleans tragedy into racial issue Even though the city of New Orleans has a Democrat mayor who is an African-American and the state of Louisiana has a Democrat governor, and even though these leaders bear much culpability for being so woefully unprepared to supervise a catastrophe, leave it to Democrat Jesse Jackson to invoke the ugly specter of racism by comparing the aftermath of New Orleans' destruction to slavery.
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