Thursday, March 19



Limiting sign-ups restricts learning

By Michael De Land In Max Weber’s classic lecture “Science as a Vocation,” he discusses the ways in which modern American universities are becoming hyper-rationalized intellectual factories. Read more...



Letters to the Editor

Social criticism not anti-American During our weekly Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance meeting, discussion turned to David Lazar’s column (“Your money funds terror,” Feb. 27) accusing the Social Justice Speaker Series of misspending the Undergraduate Students Association Council’s funding on “people who hate America.” We all agreed that while the speakers of the Social Justice Speaker Series freely express their criticisms of the United States, they should not be branded as “anti-American.” After all, it would be nearly impossible to find a well-informed person without any criticism of some aspect of the American system. Read more...



Hey Mom, can I finally buy a smoke?

Does anybody remember those annoying anti-smoking posters plastered in every single classroom of our K-12 education? You know, the ones where a grotesque inside-out woman (who looks worse than anyone your parents tried to set you up with) eyeballs you with a woe-is-me repentance, leaving you to fathom whether you still have a soul after having taken a drag of a menthol at a New Year’s Eve party? Read more...