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Issue: December 2003

Voume 2, Issue 2

News and Views

The Church of Hate

DAVID PHAM | Rev. Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptist Church preaches that God hates homosexuals and that America is being punished for its acceptence of gays.


Student Tries to Create Caucasian Club

HEIDI KHALED | Granting a Caucasian club to high school student Lisa McClelland may be fair, but is it really logical?


Moratorium on Internet Tax Expires

ROBERT KHUU | States can now tax internet connections and online sales transactions. While it might sound bad, it might actually be good.


Africa’s Problems Ignored by Many

CHELSEA THOMPSON | Bono’s organization aims to increase awareness about the suffering and strife of the poorest continent.


Misleading Ballot Instructions: the Untold Illegitimacy of the California Recall

MATTHEW CARDINALE | Erroneous instructions may have confused voters on whether they could vote on both parts of the ballot or not.

Op-Ed

POWs Should Have Legal Rights

EDITORIAL | If Timothy McVeigh got legal rights, why can't POWs have them too?


Skepticism and Liberalism: Shared Virtues

ADAM MARTIN | Liberals’ penchant for skepticism leads to the search for truth. Conservatives , however, tell us to shut up and take it the way it is.


Who Needs Zell Miller?

JAMISON POWER: Democratic Cogitations | This so-called Democrat endorses Bush for 2004 and has critcized collegues for challenging Bush.


Lynch Serves as Excellent Rhetorical Device

AMY WILLIAMS | NBC shows a faux documentary that dramatizes a ‘daring and unusual’ rescue that would have not been executed for a regular male soldier.


Bush and his Sweetheart Deals

RICHARD NGUYEN | Cheney’s former company, Halliburton, has a history of over-billing the American government and deceiving the public about its financial state.


Would You Like to Pledge to Help Save the Environment?

HEIDI KHALED | What in the world is CALPIRG and why do they want your five dollars? Learn from an actual CALPIRG member.


Encuentros: One Campus, Worlds Apart

ALEXANDER PHILLIPS | Encuentros is the first part of a series chronicling experiences with “the other.”


Help the Future

CRYSTAL MASON | Changing the future...one child at a time.


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