2008 Woodie Awards
According to the concepts of integrity, which are honesty, sincerity, and uncorrupted moral virtue, that govern most of our thoughts and actions, we've come up with the basis of most of the Ten Commandments, including thou shall not cheat. Aside from the conventional and clear-cut definitions of cheating, like cheating on your significant other or cheating on an exam, what is considered cheating exactly? What about those grey areas such as cliff notes, otherwise known as SparkNotes? Face it; in high school we all used SparkNotes at one point or another as an easy way out of homework.
To the Editor: It has been about a month since we first wrote to ask the Board of Trustees to divest from Darfur now. Since then the town of Haskanita, Sudan was raided and burned; one hundred civilians and ten African Union Peacekeepers were murdered (New York Times, 10/15/2007; Los Angeles Times, 10/15/2007).
America can't seem to catch a break in the Middle East. After the attacks on September 11th, we began counting on Pakistan as a major ally in the region in our war against terrorism. The White House backed leader General Pervez Musharraf and funded his government billions of dollars to help root out terrorist organizations in and around their nation.
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects our right to freedom of expression. This includes rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly, and to petition the government. As journalists who frame each story that gets printed in the College's newspaper each week, we are happy that administrators and other members of the College community recognize this amendment and allow us to decide what to cover, what to write and where we stand on issues around campus without intervening.