Opinion
Sex ed abstains from teaching
Abstinence-only sexual education programs aren’t comprehensive enough to address the current rate of teenage pregnancy in Arizona.
Editorial: Harm’s way
We need to realize that this is the real world and we’re not invincible, nor are we always “safe” when we’re on or near campus. We don’t run the town we go to school in, and we certainly don’t live in a bubble.
Finkelstein gives a one-sided lecture
Last Tuesday Dr. Norman Finkelstein gave a lecture on the Israel-Palestine conflict at ASU. Objectivity was not a highlight of the night.
Nearly united on national defense
Defense spending is a bipartisan sour apple in the eye of Congress.
Tax cuts extend educational opportunity
Extending the American Opportunity Tax Credit is an imperative. It allows people to go back to school and will provide the country with a more educated workforce.
Editorial: Grand Vision
The Foundation for Blind Children has realized the often hidden opportunity of these tough times and turned it into something more than it would have been before.
Scare tactics
Hollywood just doesn’t make scary movies of quality anymore.
Burying the package
Government spending is up, and millions of dollars have found their way six feet under.
An open letter to the classmate who never shuts up
Each week, ASU students face an adversary that is both more common and more perilous than anything that is to be warned of in even the most conclusive student handbook — the classmate who never shuts up.
Letter: Oct. 18
In response to Oday Shahin’s Oct. 11 column, “Study abroad program sends wrong message.”
Testing the waters
The Internet has been woven into the fabric of the college experience from online classes to Netflix. It also happens to be “big business.” What can that mean for the average college student? It could lead to your next big break as a budding entrepreneur.
Boos & Bravos: Oct. 15
What The State Press approves and disapproves of this week.
How Obama will win in 2012
Barack Obama will win re-election in 2012. First, the Republicans will win back the House in the 2010 elections. Most political observers now expect this, and the White House seems resigned to it.
Letter: Oct. 15
A reader responds to Max Feldhake’s Oct. 14 letter to the editor.
Challenging the stimu-less package
A new stimulus package will be an unstable movement to an already ill-balanced economy.
The house tradition built
Instead of looking at what other schools do to bolster and maintain school spirit, we need to be working to separate ourselves from other universities by making the experience of being a Sun Devil an entirely unique and worthwhile one for all 70,000-plus of our students.
Robo-cars will set us free
The first robot-driven cars have proven successful on the road, but don’t come without the loss of personal freedom.
Editorial: Major rescue
After spending just more than two months in a collapsed mine shaft in northern Chile, 33 miners were rescued. In 69 days the true value of life surfaced before these men ever did.
