House Editorial: Casting the first stone back

Our campus was graced, on Tuesday and Wednesday, by one of our most hated reruns: the infamous campus preacher. A Florida native, this rhetorical gift to our campus makes recurring appearances on the commons at least once a year, alerting us to our sinful, evil ways and imploring us to renounce the sins of the flesh to be — literally — perfect like him. More...

The Writing on the Wall: Hero worship
By Brian Goodman, opinion editor

We in America pride ourselves on our liberal democratic (read: ancient Greek) traditions, among them a tenacious dedication to the concept of “separation of church and state.” But while we as a political body may be secular, we are by no means irreligious. As much as we may try, every man and woman must have something to worship, whether God, money, sex, other people, themselves and so on. More...

Through the Looking Glass: No Bible, no xenophobia, no service
By Sarah Delia, staff writer

In the eyes of Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode, swearing into congressional office using a Quran instead of a Bible is the same as walking into a respectable restaurant with no shoes or shirt and demanding service — it’s simply not done. Goode, who is the congressman for the 5th District of Virginia, represents Harrisonburg’s neighboring counties of Danville, Martinsville, Charlottesville and 19 others, though he luckily skips our own Harrisonburg/Rockingham County. With the advent of Keith Ellison, the first Islamic senator ever to be sworn into office on Jan. 4, Goode has taken it upon himself to spread not so welcoming wishes to his fellow congressman by launching a verbal assault, merely using Ellison as a springboard to attack the Islamic faith. More...

The Best of What’s Around: We all need a little more Jack
By Craig Finkelstein, staff writer

He’s tactical and savvy. He holds allegiance to no one, only to the mission of defending the United States against its enemies. He is Jack Bauer, the counter terrorist agent portrayed in Fox’s TV drama “24.” While “24” is a fictional show and Bauer a fictional character, it goes without saying that the threats portrayed in the show are very real and the methods utilized to resolve those threats are the way we would all hope are being used to stop them. More...

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