Piccolo's
actions and family leave a lasting legacy
By
Ross Griffith
After
watching the remake of the movie Brian’s Song and reading the Old
Gold and Black articles about Brian Piccolo in December, I was compelled
to write this article. I also was moved at a recent basketball game
when the student-coordinated Brian Piccolo Cancer Fund Drive presented
the university a check for $47,250, making a total of $576,000 raised
since students began these outstanding efforts in 1980.
The
classic clash of religion and state
By
Doug Hutton
Any
democracy has the peculiar paradigm of balancing the influence of religion
within the given political structure. Push the scales too far, and what
remains is either a theocracy skilled in persecuting religious dissent
or an atheist territory devoid of moral principle.
What
it's like being a columnist
By
Ryan Eanes
I
think the worst natural enemy that a writer can have — and this
includes babyish, juvenile writers who are asinine and attempt to be
humorous in attempts to bring joy to their nine estimated total readers
(such as myself) — is the inability to come up with something to
write about, and that’s exactly what’s been happening to me
for the past month.
Baraka
poetry found offensive
By
Elizabeth Turnbull
Acclaimed poet, political activist, lecturer. Impressive résumé.
Knowing this much, and only this much, I went to see Amiri Baraka March
1. What I didn’t know however, was that I was going to hear words
of disgust, hate and violence spewed at people on the basis of race
and socioeconomic status. Had I known that much, I probably would have
opted not to attend. So perhaps my ignorance was provincial. The rest
of the evening was most enjoyable.
Shadow
government secrecy appropriate
By
Chris Plumblee
In
the past week, the Democrats in places of power in Washington and elsewhere
have been complaining about President George W. Bush’s contingency
plan in case the war on terror should end up on the White House Lawn.
Headlines in the New York Times and elsewhere claimed that Bush’s
propensity towards secrecy suited this plan to a "T."
Pearl's
murder raises more concerns about terrorism
By
Kathryn Spangler
The
day after I learned that Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter
who had been kidnapped in Pakistan, was confirmed dead, I was in the
public library reading the New York Times when an older gentleman approached
me and asked if he could have the sections of the paper that I had already
read. As I handed him the newspaper, I commented that I had been reading
about Pearl, and how sad the situation was. The man remarked that he
was especially angry about Pearl’s murder because he himself was
Jewish, and he thought that all Muslims should "get out of that
system." His anger elicited my sympathy, but it also made me uneasy,
reminding me that Islam is not to blame for the actions of a few fanatics,
even if some prominent U.S. religious leaders say otherwise.
