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Negotiating for Prisoners in Israel

Gilad Shalit, a staff sergeant in Israel’s defense force, was seized by Hamas, a militant Islamist group, in a cross-border raid in June...

Banking Bonuses : Good, Bad and Confusing

Though the progress made in the last quarter of 2009 seemed to be a sign that the economy is beginning to turn around,...

Netflix, You Naughty Little Tease!

Following 2009’s economic downturn and the ubiquitous bailouts of big companies, anger about corporate greed has become a fairly familiar refrain. We’ve all...

A Citizen’s Guide to Apathy

I’m going to do something courageous. I’m going to say what I truly believe deep down, and what I suspect the vast majority...

Haitian Earthquake Unearths Political Rot

Last Tuesday, a magnitude-7 earthquake hit the island nation of Haiti. As of Saturday, approximately 50,000 bodies had been recovered. The Haitian interior...

Ticketmaster : An Evil Plot to Take Over Music

American capitalism has always claimed to value competition in the free market. As consumers, we are supposed to have multiple options for everything,...

Letters to the editor

Dear Editor, As a representative of the Office of the Dean of Students, I want to address a statement in last week’s New U...

NFL’s Supreme Court Smackdown

This Wednesday, the Supreme Court will decide whether antitrust laws apply to the National Football League. If the Court rules in the NFL’s...

Student Protests and Campus Police

A federal court ruled on the use of Tasers by California police.  The ruling came in response to a 2005 incident in which...

The Invisible Children Around Us

The recession has hit many people in the United States and has received much of the media’s attention. Students are financially strained by...

Rough Year Ahead for Democrats

How would you rate Obama’s first term in office? A, B, C, Pass, No Pass? Whatever you rate it, the Democrats are in...

Warts and All, Disney’s First Black Princess

Over the past few years, Americans have gotten used to the phrase “for the first time in history.” As in, for the first...

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