There’s something to be said for selling out. A new high school in Philadelphia is selling advertising space in and on their buildings, charging up to $1 million for a single wall. Read more...

USSA deserves credit for mobilization Over the past six months, the United States Student Association has led the fight against the largest cuts to student aid in our nation’s history. Read more...

Many students relish the opportunity to recycle and invest huge amounts of time and energy (“Students cut down on waste,” Feb. 3). These students, however, would be chagrined to discover that many reasons for recycling rest on myth. Read more...

Arnold Schwarzenegger has become a girlie-man. Now I have no problem with cross-dressing, as the traffic cameras at Hollywood and Vine can attest. In life, it signifies a charming complexity. Read more...

Colin Powell has said, “Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word, and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection.” It is unfortunate that, after his performance at the United Nations in 2003, Colin Powell likely has about as much credibility in Europe as James Frey does with readers, because everyone in Europe could stand to take heed. Read more...

If you swept up all the debris and general nastiness from a typical Los Angeles city street, what would you find? There would be oil, brake dust, paper pamphlets, chemicals from lawn-care products, cigarette butts, fast-food wrappers, animal feces, and … well, you get the picture. Read more...

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