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Tornadoes are among the least predictable storms. It was a lifesaving triumph that forecasters were able to alert the people of Greensburg 20 minutes before the monster struck. But the sad spectacle of finger pointing and recriminations in the aftermath of disaster is becoming as predictable as the stoicism of survivors and the inevitable promises to rebuild...
...their expressed concerns. If the student body’s representatives do not have a medium to effect change and voice complaints, then the process must be all the more inaccessible and discouraging to individual students or student groups. Unfortunately, the UC’s means of protesting this sad state of affairs is equally lamentable. Using language that “demands” representation as a “right” in the form of a policy paper (which have historically been almost uniformly ignored by the administration) will not advance their cause. Instead, if it cannot...
...sad that it takes a scandal to wake up a society, and more so that we in academia know so little of how the current loan scandals came about. The current economic facts of student loans in the United States, quite to the contrary of common opinion, are not a necessity for students, but rather, are a necessity for academic institutions...
...have to be the first one to take the fall? -D. Lee in North CarolinaIt doesn't have to, but it does. People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. In the movies, the violence is so gratuitous. The sad truth is that people can't take it when it's reality. The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look at poor people - it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would...
Hypocrisy isn't a crime; it's more like a sad song sung in the round: you forgot to practice what you preached, broke your own rules. It is hard even to level the charge of hypocrisy without becoming guilty of it yourself...