Columnists

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Tim Murphy

Calling all crazies

The true value of the town hall is not to field questions from “ordinary Americans,” but rather, to hear from Americans who in their eccentricities are decidedly not ordinary, thereby challenging the candidates to depart from their talking points and confront the situation at hand.

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Nathan Bloom

There is an “i-banking” in team

Public virtue is increasingly, and disturbingly, substituted for private morality.

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Claire McNear

Shouting fire in an empty theater

All across campus, econ majors are feeling queasy—if not i-banking on Wall Street, then what?

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Matt Barnum

Agree to agree

The upcoming presidential election has been fraught with disagreement since its candidates first began their arduous paths to the White House. One is left wondering who, exactly, these extremist nut jobs are.

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Nathan Bloom

Sacrificing substance

Either Obama is cynically exploiting for political gain Americans’ frustration about their government’s passivity in the face of monstrous evil, or he fundamentally misunderstands the role of a leader in a republic.

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Claire McNear

Change we can live with

Change is not a pleasant experience.

The Board

Editorial: Asleep at the wheel

The University should now turn its attention to the other flaws in the SafeRide program.

More Hyde Park Fun: Ayers Force One

UNLV professor David S. Tanenhaus has a piece in Slate today about his friendship with UNREPENTANT TERRORISTS Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the unrepentant terrorists who once plotted to blow up the …

Ramada Inn immortalized in emotional campaign ad

Tremendous news today, as the Obama campaign released a new ad featuring footage of the Ramada Inn, which in the absence of the Four Seasons Doctors Hospital, is as close as Hyde Park is ever going to …

Contributors

Letters

Letter: Institute objections could do better

As a liberal Democrat, I find it distressing that the faculty opposed to the Milton Friedman Institute would champion Naomi Klein to “lead the attack,” as it were.

Student-death coverage distasteful

These stories were being shared so poorly and baldly by the Maroon on the front page of the paper, marginalizing stories of renewal and revitalization so important to our community and new students.

Letter: G.I. Bill only benefits the rich

As a third-year in the College and a four-year veteran of the United States Navy, I was touched and honored to read Ryan McCarl’s “Vetoing Memorial Day” (5/30/2008). However, I must wholeheartedly …

Letter: Student Leader Awards not worth the gripe

I wanted to compliment you on publishing an op-ed as reactionary and implausibly reasoned as Rebecca Shi, Tsion Gurmu, and Cristina Perez’s recent article concerning Student Leader Awards (“Award C…