Stacie Freudenberg / Chronicle

College Council out of line on Iraq

Earlier this month the Columbia College Council chose to grapple with an issue outside of the college. They passed a resolution on Oct. 11 in protest of the current United States stance on Iraq. The resolution, drafted by Louis Silverstein of the Liberal Education Department, was met with little dissent. This is disturbing news.

The council has decided it would be in the best interest of the students and faculty members to state a generalized opinion of the college community. Without asking students or other faculty members, aside from those on the council, council members audaciously took it upon them selves to speak for the entire Columbia community. Force-fed liberalism is wrong in all forms, and that is what this resolution embodies.

The College Council is not a group of elected officials chosen to speak on the behalf of others about political issues; it is a group of faculty, staff and administrators coming together to better the college. Read more...

Political views must be protected

(U-WIRE) HONOLULU—Diversity. It’s one of those words we frequently hear on campus. Diversity can be a good and interesting thing. Growing up in Honolulu, I got to meet people from a diversity of cultures, eat at a diverse group of restaurants and observe people getting involved in diverse activities. Read more...

Ignoring cheaters unfair to honest students

Plagiarism is a growing trend on today’s college campuses. With the unlimited resources the Internet provides, it has become easier for students to appropriate the work of others. However, what is behind this growing trend is even more disturbing—plagiarism is just one form of cheating taking place. Read more...

Clemency hearings unjust to victims’ families

All eyes were on Illinois last week. The country watched and read as the Illinois Prisoner Review Board began clemency hearings for 140 of the 160 death-row inmates in the state.

Gov. Ryan has deemed it necessary to rehash some of the state’s most horrific murders, rapes and other crimes in order to determine the possibility of granting clemency to some or even all—as Ryan has suggested he might do—of the state’s death row inmates. Read more...

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