Lilly
Endowment grant encouraging
This
column represents the views of the Old Gold and Black Editorial Board.
University President Thomas K. Hearn Jr.’s prediction two weeks
ago that the university’s formal split from the North Carolina
Baptist Convention would have few substantial ramifications was proven
true last week when the university received a $2 million grant from
Lilly Endowment, Inc., a private philanthropic organization that supports
the causes of religion, education and community development.
'Monologues'
will open eyes on campus
This
column represents the views of the Old Gold and Black Editorial Board.
University President Thomas K. Hearn Jr.’s prediction two weeks
ago that the university’s formal split from the North Carolina
Baptist Convention would have few substantial ramifications was proven
true last week when the university received a $2 million grant from
Lilly Endowment, Inc., a private philanthropic organization that supports
the causes of religion, education and community development.
America's
means aren't justified
By
Brandon Walters
In Jordan Wagner’s column in the Nov. 15 edition of the Old
Gold and Black (“The fallacy of the anti-war movement”)
he assailed sophomore Kathryn Spangler for her stance on the U.S. bombings
in Afghanistan. It’s clear to Wagner that the anti-war movement
has been misinformed by propaganda and suffers from an ignorance of
history and logic. He distills his analysis to a cliché: “the
ends justify the means.” I wonder what Wagner really knows of history
and logic, of our transgressions in the Middle East in the past 50 years.
If such a thing can be judged by the content of his opinion, it is obvious
that he doesn’t know much.
Could
a traveling trophy help us snare a bowl bid?
By
Jay Cridlin
Editor in Chief
Once again, we have come to the end of the proverbial road of another
football season, and once again, the university is forced to sit out
in the proverbial truck, listening to bowl games on the proverbial radio,
desperately trying to think of ways to extend this proverbial metaphor.
Bush's
leadership skills far surpass Clinton's
By
Chris Plumblee
First of all, I want to take this opportunity to clear up the prediction
that I made in my last column (“Is the fall of Kabul the beginning
of the Taliban’s end?”, Nov. 15) about the Taliban and its
fighters holding out in Kandahar for another month after they were chased
out of the capital city. Obviously, I was wrong. The Taliban is still
in possession of Kandahar at this point, but they are on the verge of
collapse, according to all reliable information. They have lost much
of the rest of the country and all reports state that they are on the
run back to their points of strength.
Pettiness
rules our world
By
Elizabeth Turnbull
This has been a semester of growth, or, rather, of growing pains. Sept.
11 shattered the innocence of our generation and gave us a harsh wake-up
call to the real world.
Apart from the grand lessons of patriotism and a renewed appreciation
for the freedom we hold so dear, each one of us is taking away something
unique from the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C.
