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Vol XXXVII No. 76

Monday, January 20, 2003

  Commentaries

Create a `Flex 10' student meal plan
Student Senate Steering Committee
Trip Foley, chairman

The Student Senate Steering Committee believes that students deserve a new meal plan option, and we have decided to make this the focus of our meeting this week. The current meal plan allows students to choose either 21 or 14 meals ... [more]
Home for the holidays
Amy Schill
Dazed and Amused

Winter break is great. There's no homework, my dry skin heals, Jesus is born and there's pie. Christmas of course also means family get-togethers, and the holidays at the Schill house this year featured even more people celebrating the Lord's birth, ... [more]
Quote of the Day
Ogden Nash
American poet

"A family is a unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal and the common cold." Ogden Nash American poet ... [more]
What would King do?
Elliott Magers
St. Joe's Hall

"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of ... [more]
Media bias still abounds
Benjamin Thomas Remmert
class of '00

Several interesting articles have been printed in these pages recently concerning race, media bias and U.S. senators. I would like to add a few observations which have not yet been made by others. As for Trent Lott and his foolish, hurtful ... [more]
30 years of Roe v. Wade
Kathleen J. Black
President, St. Joseph County Right to Life, Inc.

Thirty years ago on Jan. 22, 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States decided in Roe vs. Wade, that "legal personhood does not exist prenatally." In essence, the Court said that unborn children were not human, and therefore, could be ... [more]


Inside Column
Days to remember
Katie McVoy
Associate Sports Editor

Last Sunday I walked back onto campus after a long vacation – for the last time. As I walked down the hall of my dorm and greeted my friends who I hadn't seen for the last three weeks it struck me ... [more]


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