Counter point: Don’t pack the Supreme Court
The retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy revitalized liberal interest in the dirty tactics of increasing the number of Supreme Court justices to obtain a majority more favorable to...
View ArticlePoint: Balance the Supreme Court
The nation is intensely divided. In the past, there was a shared vision of the future with differing ideas of how to get there. We no longer share that vision; we are now competing for the future. The...
View ArticlePoint: The case against group projects
Few things about education irk me quite as much as group projects do. This is partly because not once in my time as a student in high school or college have I had a group project experience that I can...
View ArticleCounterpoint: The case for group work
It’s hard enough to control your own life, let alone somebody else’s. Yet many of our classes rely on group collaboration that requires every member to contribute. Naturally, this causes problems when...
View ArticlePoint: Massachusetts vaping ban may not be so bad
In the wake of Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s infamous four-month ban on all vaping product sales, students across campus will have to get crafty to try and get around the law, if they want to...
View ArticleCounterpoint: Prohibition only breeds replacement
When I was a freshman in high school, I was only vaguely aware of vaping. I thought it was something smokers used to transition away from cigarettes. By the time I was a senior, I had to push and shove...
View ArticlePoint: Keep your cameras on in your Zoom lectures
At the start of quarantine, I never thought that I could actually miss being late to class, but I do. I miss scrambling to find a seat in the back of Mahar without causing too much of a distraction to...
View ArticlePoint: Congress should vote for a $15 federal minimum wage
While it is unlikely that a $15 minimum wage will be passed soon, there are no substantive reasons for avoiding an increase in the minimum wage. Some may point to a recent Congressional Budget Office...
View ArticleCounterpoint: Don’t raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour
President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats planned to include a $15 an hour federal minimum wage in the latest COVID-19 relief bill that is currently working its way through Congress. The minimum...
View ArticleCounterpoint: Keep criticizing global organizations
On Oct. 18, Collegian Columnist Simon Fox published his piece, “Stop criticizing global organizations.” In the column, Fox argues that the benefits of international organizations like the...
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