Issues
Should Obese Airline Passengers Pay Extra?
Obese Passengers Create an Unfair Burden?
by: Jae H. Chung
Anyone who needs multiple seats due to their size should be required to purchase multiple seats. Why? Let’s conduct a thought experiment where the large passenger sits in a seat located by the aisle. In order for the large passenger...
Selling Kidneys for Cash
Cash-For-Kidneys?
NO Sale!
by: Robert L. Houbeck
You trudge along the Huron, absorbed in wonder at what the miracle of compound interest is doing to your college debt. Suddenly, a splash, a cry. A man flails in the water. He can’t swim; you can. “Please, help me!” You (1), plunge...
Student Volunteers in Haiti: Harmful or Helpful?
On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake struck the nation of Haiti…The United States Government has deployed over 13,000 troops, treated over 7,000 patients, and evacuated over 10,500 people as of January 21st.
The White House-Office of the Press Secretary-January 21, 2010
Student Development...
I’m Gay: Should I Get Married?
Can Queer Love Fit Marriage’s Heteronorms?
by: parker cronin
Contrary to what you may believe based on the thesis of this article, I am not a homophobic bigot. In fact, I am a proud gay man. My stance against marriage stems, neither from a sense of self-hatred (I like being gay), nor from religious...
Should Porn be Legal?
Pornography and Female Objectification
by: Lexie Tourek
Mass produced videos of the “barely legal” girl, the Asian sex-slave, and the impossibly perfect blonde objectify, oppress, and stereotype every womyn. It does not matter that these womyn are filmed voluntarily, that men recognize the fantastical...
Limits on Life: When Should Death be a Decision?
The Right to Die:
A Plan for the Worst
by: By: Katelin Davis
Dear Mother and Father,
If the time should ever come that you are forced to choose whether to lay
me, your child, beneath the Earth or to sustain my life, know that I cherish my life up
until the point that you know I am no longer...
