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Changing headlines one column at a time

This is my last column in The Red & Black because I’m graduating next Saturday. It’s been a long journey for me. Heck, my writing appeared here before I was ever a student – I wrote into the Mailbox the summer before I started attending the University and had my letter published.

Programs promote cultural awareness

Chris Chiego is wrong. And not just a little wrong, either. The premise of Chiego’s argument in his Monday column, “Univ. encourages racial divide on campus,” is that the University promotes “racial divisiveness” by hosting student organizations, events and departments focused around certain racial groups.

Incompetent Gingrich matches description of past presidents

Newt Gingrich wants attention. How do I know? Because the visiting law professor has been using the s-word – socialism. At the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, he lambasted Obama’s effort to “create a European socialist government” and roll back “American free enterprise.

Torturers should be brought to justice

As part of a series of events to promote political awareness, Stand Up magazine – “the University’s Progressive Voice” – will be screening the 2007 film “Rendition,” starring Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal, on Wednesday at 6:15 in MLC Room 147. I encourage you to come watch the movie and stay for discussion about the film’s topic: extraordinary rendition.

Leaders must be held more accountable

For the past two years, I’ve been the University’s student representative for Campus Progress, the youth wing of the Washington, D.C., think tank the Center for American Progress. You may have heard of CAP – its president is currently leading President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team.

Students to lobby in D.C. against war

On January 27, hundreds of thousands of Americans will converge on the nation’s capital to demand an end to war. My student group the Campus Greens will join them. I write to ask you to join us. I know you may have reservations about jumping on board with us “radicals and hippies” (whose position on the war is now shared by over 60 percent of the American people, according to leading studies of public opinion).