Opinion

Many people have heard about the Greek debt crisis and its causes, but there has not been any consensus on what should be done about it.

As we become more blinded by our pointless attempts at achieving educational perfection, we are creating a fabricated intelligence. And in doing so, we are embedding rudimentary skills into a millions of students and passing it off as learning.

Obama has come a long way from his days of solely supporting civil unions, but as the issue with state decisions suggests, there are still a few more obstacles to overcome before same-sex marriage is an option for all couples, regardless of where they live.

All these students apathetic, complain this group makes them frenetic, These privileged classmen say “Hands for Africa is so annoying.”

One year after Osama bin Laden’s death, the West is still scrutinizing Pakistan’s relationship with Al Qaeda and the Taliban. The aftermath of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was characterized by an explosion of uncertainty: How had the world’s most wanted terrorist been able to hide in his Abbottabad compound for six years?

With propulsion and gusto came Kony 2012. It came in the form of a YouTube video, and within the blink of an eye, the campaign was soon gone. Kony 2012 video director, Jason Russell, stripped naked in the streets of San Diego, and soon after, April 20 came and went with few, if any, posted stickers and signs which were to sweep the nation and put Uganda on the map of international awareness.

They say a time will come when the world is ruled, not by the whims of man, but by the demands of machines. Some go so as far to say that humans will one day be enslaved by our own creations, our lives consumed with their power-hungry appetite. They say such a time is fast approaching.

Last week, Microsoft invested $605 million in Barnes & Noble’s digital reader business, which produces both the Nook e-reader and the Nook digital tablet. As a result of the investment, Barnes & Noble will create a new subsidiary, Newco, in which Microsoft will hold a 17.6 percent stake. But honestly, I don’t really care about the numbers, and you probably don’t either.

There is a lot of pressure regarding higher education, as we are all intimately aware. Whether it is the pressure to get into college, pressure to stay in college, pressure to make the most out of college or pressure to “succeed” (whatever that may mean), sometimes students and their parents resort to desperate measures to accommodate the system.

The music community suffered quite a loss with the passing of Adam “MCA” Yauch, the renowned founder of the Beastie Boys.

Election season is in full swing and we’ve already endured nearly a month of back and forth controversies and accusations that one side or the other has engaged in cheap tricks. President Obama politicized the death of the world’s most notorious terrorist (at least until Kony came along), and Mitt Romney politicized Obama eating a dog as a child after the Democrats politicized him putting his dog on his car.

When Obama decided to “slow jam” the news he knew he was not going to be able to get away with pulling this campaign stunt without backlash from his critics. He took a risk by appearing on a late-night talk show, aware that his opponents would not shy away from the fight.