Daily Skiff

by Kristen Chapman

I am writing in response to John Andrew Willis' Jan. 29 column "SGA Should Get Feedback Before Using Student Money." Having served as the Student Government Association Programming Council chair for the past two years, I understood the problems and challenges described regarding concerts and general programming on campus. (0) comments

by Tyler Zodrow

Is former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich the next Nelson Mandela? He'd like you to think so. Comparing himself not only to Mandela, but also Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi, Blagojevich professed his innocence across the airwaves and at his impeachment trial last week to no avail. (0) comments

by Thomas Guidry

Moral standards personal, not political As a Christian, I would like to comment on the Jan. 28 column "Proposed abortion law attests to loose morals" by Andrew Weatherford. First, I would like to state that from my personal religious standpoint rather than a moral one, that abortion is wrong. (1) comment

Should teachers receive bonuses for having better evaluations, as Texas A&M University is doing this semester? "Yea, they should receive a bonus, because it's a student-teacher relationship and usually the better the relationship, the better the student does. (0) comments

by Derek VerHagen

Just two days after taking office, President Barack Obama ordered the closing of Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. naval base in Cuba has been used as a detainment camp where prisoners have been subjected to "enhanced interrogation" since 1991, according to the History News Network. (2) comments

by Katie Martinez

I watch "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" a lot. I don't normally consider him to be extremely profound so much as amusing, but in an episode this week he said something so intriguing I'm still thinking about it days later. When discussing the new bailout plan with guest Gwen Ifill moderator of PBS' "Washington Week," Stewart proposed a "trickle-up theory" of economics in which the corporate bailout money goes first to the taxpayers with the sole purpose of paying off the consumer debt and mortgages they have with banks. (0) comments

by Michael Lauck

Last week, in one of his first White House meetings, President Barack Obama warned Republicans to stop listening to conservative radio personality Rush Limbaugh if they wanted to work successfully with the new administration. Obama was discussing the stimulus plan with top Republican members when, according to a New York Post article, Obama said, "You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done. (0) comments

by Vlora Bojku

In the 30 years that Hillary Clinton has graced the political limelight, she has worked her way from the governor of Arkansas' wife to first lady of the United States and then to a New York senator before becoming the only female presidential candidate to ever really be taken seriously. (0) comments

by Jarrod Greene

Michael Lauck's Jan. 30 column "Obama shouldn't shut out dissenters" is another example of the persecution complex that seems to drive modern American conservatism. The article characterized Obama's remark as a warning to Republican congressional leaders not to listen to Rush Limbaugh, "or else. (1) comment

by Katie Martinez

Before we break our arms patting ourselves on the backs because the plan to have a natural gas well on campus has apparently been avoided, maybe we should read between the lines. It's true that if Chesapeake Energy's south side plan is approved by the city of Fort Worth, we will no longer have a gas well near the stadium, but the proposed well didn't disappear. (4) comments