Opinion Articles
Don't be misinformed: drinking and driving is just dumb
Midterms are here and the idea of going to a bar, possibly watching a BSU football game and enjoying a few drinks may be attractive. Yet, while you're out forgetting about your troubles and letting off some steam we ask you to please forget your car keys as well. …
By SAMANTHA BROOKS
Guest Opinion
You know what I hate? I hate that every time I have an opinion that differs from my family's, my mother blames it on my being 20 and being a college student. Why is it that the older generation likes to believe that because we're younger than them, our opinions are worthless? My grandparents think that people my age cannot possibly have a real opinion on today's politics and social issues because we have not lived as long as them. …
By DAVE BARRY
Miami Herald (MCT)
Recently, I received a phone call from my son, Rob. It was a phone call that every parent dreads.
That's right: My son told me that the universe does not exist. Or at least it does not in any way resemble my concept of it. …
By ROSS MACKENZIE
McClatchy Newspapers
Quotations on topics currently in the news ...
Federal District Judge Harold Murphy, finding that minorities are not disenfranchised by a Georgia law requiring voters to provide a photo ID when going to the polls: "Voters who lack photo ID undoubtedly exist somewhere, but the fact that plaintiffs, in spite of their efforts, have failed to uncover anyone `who can attest to the fact that he/she will be prevented from voting' provides significant support for a conclusion that the photo ID requirement does not unduly burden the right to vote. …
Lectures are cool
By Arbiter Editorial Board
The idea of attending lectures outside of class isn’t exactly appealing to college students. After a long day of listening to professors speak, sitting in on a guest lecture isn’t always the most desirable way to spend an evening.Still, Boise State students should realize the variety of opportunities that their campus has to offer in the form of guest lecturers. …
By JONATHAN SAWMILLER
Opinion Writer
Oct. 1, 1997: Pearl, Miss. Sixteen-year-old Luke Woodham stabbed his mother to death, and then drove to Pearl High School where he shot and killed two students and wounded seven more. Assistant Principal Joel Myrick ended Woodham’s murderous rampage by retrieving a . …
By MICHAEL J. MCLASKEY
Opinion Writer
Is violence hard-wired into males? Recent school shootings in this country again raise the same questions about violence in the media, ostracism of outsiders and the decline ofthe American family’s socialcohesion.We men in civilization live in a confusing time; the transition from boyhood to manhood is not marked in an iron-clad way. …
The United States government awards the Dalai Lama its highest honor
By ERIC MARTINEZ
Special to the Arbiter
On Oct. 17 the United States Congress awarded the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal. China not only refuses to recognize this honor, it is angry at the free world for doing so.The medal is the highest award that can be bestowed to a citizen in our country, and is traditionally awarded to any individual who performs an outstanding deed or act of service to the security, prosperity and national interest of the U. …
By JOSEPH L. GALLOAY
McClatchy Newspapers
One of America’s more thoughtful military strategists, retired Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, a veteran of ground combat in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, says that our “defense strategy is unbalanced, incoherent and underfunded.”McCaffrey made his comments and recommendations in a six-page analysis addressed to professors at West Point, where he’s an adjunct professor of international relations. …
By DUSTIN LAPRAY
Editor-in-Chief
Dear Readers:
Boise State is a working-class university. Few of its students have what is considered the "easy" life. If you are looking for a non-traditional campus, it is in your back yard and it's infested with worker bees.
The average BSU student age is about 26-years old. …
By MICHAEL J. MCLASKEY
Opinion Writer
In the race for the next presidency, Ron Paul is the only "moral" candidate.
I hear people talk about Hillary Clinton as the best bet to avoid NeoCon tactics in the form of Republican xenophobia. Former mayor Rudy Guiliani seems to be the best bet to fight off the liberal agenda. …
By GREGORY FLOYD
Guest Opinion
As a BSU senior, I have learned much from my professors. Among the strategies for success have been to exhibit integrity in all my dealings and to be personally accountable for my actions.
The Statesman recently ran an article about Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center where the leadership permitted and directly participated in some bad acts. …
By J. MILLETTE-LARNED
Guest Opinion
This is not the best forum for what I'd like to propose, but I couldn't find just a BSU football/blog/suggestion site. The Broncos will face their toughest rival - Hawaii - in November. That team, in the last few months, has taken some real heat for doing the "haka" - a Polynesian war dance (way cool, actually) that is also done by the All Blacks - New Zealand's great rugby team. …
By ERIC MARTINEZ
Special to The Arbiter
This past week a Mexican poet and aspiring horror novelist created his own real-life arena of macabre by eating his girlfriend.Actually, Jose Luis Calva of Mexico City told police he had boiled some of his girlfriend’s flesh but that he hadn’t eaten it. …
By DAVE BARRY
McClatchy Newspapers
I think I might know where the missile launcher is.I’m referring here to the $1 million missile launcher that our armed forces apparently misplaced, according to a recent audit of the U.S. government (motto: “We Do Have a Motto, But We Don’t Know Where It Is”). …
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