House Editorial: #!@% …and we thought JMU had problems

Last week Colorado State University’s newspaper, Rocky Mountain Collegian, ran a 17-letter editorial dropping the big, fat f-bomb on President Bush. David McSwane, editor-in-chief of The Collegian, printed an editorial in response to an incident involving a college student who was Tasered in Florida at a speech given by John Kerry. More...

Battle of the sexes: Can this country handle a female president?
Two pieces by David Schultz and Sarah Delia

Until 1920, women in the United States were considered second-class citizens and were given no voice in the government. With the passage of the 19th Amendment, millions of voices were finally given the right to speak. Even with this right, however, women have been given less of a voice in our government than they deserve. More...

Glass half full: Maiden names in marriage vows
By Traci Cox, staff writer

Women go through many rites of passage in life, and I’m not talking about anything to do with a family life education course here. I’m talking about marriage and becoming “Mrs. So-and-so.” Great aunts and chick flicks alike portray the wedding day as the “best” and “most important” day of a woman’s life. Why? More...

In the know: “911, what’s your emergency?”
By Jeff Genota, staff writer

This week marks a campus-wide celebration of the European Union for International Week. While the European Union has been heralded as a unifying entity known for keeping harmonious relations between European states for the last half-century, it has been dogged with weaknesses ranging from the continued delay of Turkey’s entrance and the constitution that was rejected by French and Dutch voters in 2005. More...

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