Breeze Perspectives: So I'm an ugly American—So what?
By Garrett Hooe, contributing writer

So I sat here wondering what in the heck I would write about for my last column in The Breeze. Being able to write to other students of this school has been a privilege, and for those who have had the patience (or simply the lack of anything else to do) to read what I have written, thank you. Occasionally, especially when you are a college student, it is difficult to remember that there is a world of 6 billion people out there. We have heard it all before, but sometime we are going to have to answer when the real world comes knocking at our door. Much of what I have written was thought of on a Friday or Saturday morning after a solid night of partying. The college bubble is a prized one, I know. More...

Through the Looking Glass: No geades, no peoblem
By Sarah Delia, staff writer

We hate, loathe and curse their very being; but where would we be without the letters and numbers that accumulate to represent our grades? Especially with finals week looming its ugly head around the corner (this is the last week of class, folks), I have danced with the possibility of running away to a Utopian society were grades are nonexistent, a world in which we are measured by our actual ability, not what a number or letter says we are capable of. College, a time of supposed rebellion, self discovery, and adventure, is in some ways just an accepted extension of high school. How many times have you said to yourself, “I knew that material, but I didn’t understand the format of the test,” or “I do so much better on the essay portion and fail the multiple choice?” Now, after you moan over the suppressing constraint of the letter or number, what do you do next? More than likely, the name of the professor is cursed, but order is maintained and the grading system lives on to size up another victim using the ABC, 123, method. More...

Breeze Perspectives: Making much ado with the Iran issue
By Anthony Riedel, contributing writer

Some national issues are easy to figure out: build a wall on the border and kick the illegal immigrants out; abortion is not only bad law but immoral (unless the mother and the baby’s health is in danger, of course); and the Republican Congress needs to stop spending like a bunch of drunken sailors. There is only one issue in which I cannot make up my mind for more than two weeks. It is like I’m Hillary Clinton speaking recently at a pro-illegal immigration rally in New York City after proclaiming that she is “adamantly opposed to illegal immigration.” What is this complicated issue? Iran. Let me provide my current position on an easy two-step solution if things get out of hand. More...

House Editorial: Welcoming our professors to the end of the semester

There is a question on many students’ minds as we go into this last week of classes before our quarter-year reprieve, a question that needs to be asked: Who do these professors think they are? More...

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