Facebook aficionados around the world are well versed in the posts of 25 random things. Participants on Facebook list 25 things about their lifes that friends might not know and tag 25 people so they can do the same. It's just another thing to do online when you're bored, feel silly or have an inkling that someone wants to know 25 random things about you. (1) comment
Major League Baseball fans need to calm down and take a step back from the absolute media frenzy surrounding the steroid scandals. It was difficult to accept that Alex Rodriguez was using steroids when he was the overpaid star of my beloved Texas Rangers. (0) comments
Americans are balking at a mother's choice to bring another eight lives into existence in addition to the six children she already had. Yet so far this year, an estimated 5 million babies have been aborted around the world. "All I've ever wanted was to be a mom," was the response of the mother of 14 children, Nadya Suleman, to the aggressive accusations of "The Today Show" anchor Ann Curry that Suleman has been quite "selfish. (8) comments
Laptop bans unreasonable, inconsiderate While reading The Skiff View in Tuesday's paper titled "Laptops should not be banned from the classroom" I was reminded of a recent incident in one of my classes. A student asked the professor if he would allow her to take notes on her laptop. (0) comments
The first bill signed into law by President Barack Obama, The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, resets the 180-day period women have to file a discriminatory pay lawsuit every pay period. Some who oppose this revolutionary piece of legislation say it will hurt businesses by forcing them to create a level playing field. (0) comments
Being that we spend so much time on a large campus, we get a certain sinking feeling in the pit of our stomachs when violence erupts at another school. Even though it seems an unlikely event, and God forbid that anything like that would ever happen here, it is a good idea to consider at least once what steps could be taken to protect oneself during an attack. (0) comments
Some of us are living in denial, even in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre. Thankfully though, not everyone continues to live this way, as Texas Sens. Joe Driver and Jeff Wentworth are drafting legislation that would allow licensed students the privilege of carrying concealed firearms on campus, a measure that should have been passed a long time ago. (11) comments
Surrounded by press, smiling faces and women's unions, President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which gives female employees more time to take their pay discrimination cases to court. The bill was named for Lilly Ledbetter, who lost a pay discrimination case in the Supreme Court because she had not filed the case within the 180 days previously allowed by law. (1) comment
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