We present our weekly review of selected student columnists and opinion writers. In this edition, the effects of the internet, religion on campus, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the benefits of polyamory are some of the subjects for commentary.
- The communications and information capabilities wrought by the internet are simply dazzling, says a features writer for the UA/Tuscaloosa Crimson and White. She also thinks that it comes at a very steep price to the educational and social process on campus.
- Although she’s no fan of Michelle Bachmann, a political commentator for the Arizona Daily Wildcat thinks that the GOP presidential candidate is being unfairly dissed by the media for an innocent and perfectly commonplace analogy made during a recent speech.
- The current economic recession has a number of disquieting similarities to the Great Depression of the 1930s, in the view of an opinion columnist for the Emory University Wheel.
- As he begins his senior year, an op ed writer for the Michigan Daily offers some thoughts on what he’d like to hear from his class’s commencement speaker, come next June.
- Although a jobs plan from Washington is urgently needed, House majority leader Eric Cantor’s proposals are way off target, says a staffer for the Daily Mississippian.
- A recent public religious service conducted on the University of New Mexico’s campus prompted this column and this response in the Daily Lobo.
- A features columnist offers advice on “practical polyamory” to readers of the Cornell Daily Sun.
- A U of Montana environmental studies major assures readers of The Kaimin that it’s possible to be concerned about the environment without being an environmentalist nutjob.
- Thoughtful criticism in the arts comes with the territory, says a cultural critic in UCLA’s Daily Bruin, but the current infusion of ideology in place aesthetics in many quarters is a very unhealthy development.
- As the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks approaches, an editorialist for the U of I’s Daily Illini reflects on the world as once was, and what’s changed since that day in 2001.
- A regular columnist for the Kentucky Kernal explains her paper’s beef with the UK athletics program.
- Although an ocean separates them geographically, the London riots and flash mobs in Philadelphia have more than a few threads in common, in the view of an editorialist for the Temple News.