Opinion

Editorial: Sanctions won't end season

Yesterday, the most prestigious athletic program at ASU suffered penalties for infractions dating back to 2004. The ASU baseball team, currently ranked No. 1 in the nation, was sanctioned by the University as a result of an investigation that led to the forced resignation on legendary head coach Pat Murphy.

By Editorial Board | April 21, 2010

Banning drugs limits joy

Many people have a deep-seated objection to drugs as a proper avenue to pleasure and happiness. Such a choice is deeply personal and each person should be allowed to choose for him or herself the ways to achieve happiness.

By Benjamin Morin | April 21, 2010

Anarchy as an alternative?

With the whole country arguing about how the government should be operating, one ASU organization asks us, ‘What if there wasn’t one to operate?'

By Dante Graves | April 21, 2010

Day of Prayer unconstitutional, may be abolished

Last week the National Day of Prayer was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge. The judge made the right decision and hopefully May 6, 2010 will be the last government sponsored National Day of Prayer.

By Austin Yost | April 21, 2010

Sophomores, like seniors, should celebrate learning

Remember that saying, “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten”? Well, I feel like the rest of life’s lessons I learned during my first two years at college.

By Dustin Volz | April 21, 2010

Letters to the Editor: April 22

In response to the April 13 editorial, “Pushing PIRG.”

By Letters | April 21, 2010

Editorial: Arresting activism

As one of the most controversial immigration bills sat on Gov. Jan Brewer’s desk Tuesday, nine students sat in a Maricopa County jail.

By Editorial Board | April 20, 2010

Gods don’t wait, but people do

Idle waiting not only allows uninterrupted connection with what the mind and body are doing, it reminds us that no matter how many obligations we have or people who might wish to talk to us, we still have to wait for someone else.

By Alex Petrusek | April 20, 2010

Chronicled for ‘tweet’-ernity

If your future offspring ever want to research social norms of our era using the Library of Congress, your Twitter will be their primary source.

By Alana Arbuthnot | April 20, 2010

Tea Partiers uninformed, many untaxed

With 25 different tax cuts passed during the Obama administration, why aren’t Tea Partiers happy?

By Andrew Hedlund | April 20, 2010

Letters: April 21

‘Family values’ platform just campaign hype?

By Letters | April 20, 2010

RFID Technology: Where ‘sci-fi’ meets ‘I spy’

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchips are readily available for human insertion...still, the question remains: Would you agree to be low-jacked?

By Hal Cohen | April 20, 2010

Editorial: The Columbine Generation

The tragedy that happened at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 changed the way we grew up. It changed our parents. It changed the way we thought about guns, about security, about our society.

By Editorial Board | April 19, 2010

3D films have gone too far

While 3D originated in the 1950s, the success of the 2009 box office record-breaker, “Avatar,” specially designed to wow the technology world, seems to have sparked a Hollywood obsession with 3D films.

By Monique Zatcoff | April 19, 2010

April 20: a half-baked holiday

April 20 has long been known to be associated with marijuana use, but how did the connection develop? A short history of 420.

By Zach Fowle | April 19, 2010

Hijacked by porn?

With at least 200 new pornographic websites opening up daily on the Internet, according to the Los Angeles Times, you are becoming more vulnerable to psychological, emotional, mental, and social harms each day.

By Catherine Smith | April 19, 2010

It’s nothing personal, it’s just education

A professor at Louisiana State University has been dismissed from her teaching duties because the introductory biology class she was teaching was too hard. This is due not to lazy students or a crazy professor, but to assembly-line college educations.

By Cullen Wheatley | April 19, 2010

Letters to the Editor: April 20

It appears the student government constitution lacks a proper process for independent review.

By Letters | April 19, 2010

Editorial: Playing around

The temperature is hitting upwards of 90 degrees in April, and bikinis and swim trunks are making their way out of the closets and onto the “student body.” ASU just received the “Hottest Girls” honorable mention by Playboy magazine in addition to snagging one of the Top 10 spots on Playboy’s list of party schools.

By Editorial Board | April 18, 2010

Earth Day is for everyone, not just hippies

Many people are critical of Earth Day, but there are many reasons to celebrate on April 22. Some of those reasons just aren’t obvious at first.

By Becky Rubenstrunk | April 18, 2010

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