Editorials
From the Daily: Common sense
By: The Michigan Daily
As it transitions to the Common App, the University should simply make sure that it retains unique and important criteria from its existing application.
From the Daily: Huffing and puffing
By: The Michigan Daily
Rather than subjecting smokers to a policy that will severely restrict their lifestyle while providing little benefit to overall public health, the University should simply enforce existing bans on smoking inside and directly outside of buildings.
From the Daily: Blind to oversight
By: The Michigan Daily
The University is abjectly failing its duty to ensure that there is an authority keeping DPS in line. This failure is in direct violation of state law, and the University must move quickly to right the staggering number of wrongs it has failed to address.
From the Daily: Relaxing late-night laws
By: The Michigan Daily
Because they would be allowed to stay open later, the bars would generate more sales and help offset their economic problems with more revenue.
From the Daily: Abusing Bridge Cards
By: From the Daily
Just because it’s easy to cheat the system doesn’t mean college students should. Students who didn’t need the money but went for it anyway just because they knew they would qualify are behaving irresponsibly.
From the Daily: Pushing the limit
By: The Michigan Daily
Though Martin has since apologized for the incident, his rash behavior reflects poorly on the University and its administration.
From the Daily: Stop Stupak
By: The Michigan Daily
With millions of uninsured people in the United States, health reform is certainly important. But reform should not be accompanied by laws that scale back a woman’s right to choose what to do with her body.
Columns
Harsha Panduranga: Smoking won't stop
By: Harsha Panduranga
Aside from the fact that the University's campus-wide smoking ban is both unfair and an infringement upon students’ rights, the ban's enforcement mechanism the ban is illogical.
Robert Soave: Reckless advice for MSA
By: Robert Soave
Will the fact that the University misled the student government on a matter of state law, either deliberately or out of complete idiocy, ever be addressed?
Chris Koslowski: Moderate this
By: Chris Koslowski
Moderation isn’t the answer for the GOP. The party needs to pull out all the stops to convince voters that conservative values are the driving force behind America’s success.
Viewpoints
Viewpoint: Dying for Twilight love
By: Eileen Stahl
I understand that “Twilight” is fantasy, but abusive relationships, dependency and teen suicide are pretty high on my list of things that aren’t romantic.
Viewpoint: Party like it's 1969
By: Andrew Chinsky and the Go Blue Beat OSU Core Team
Coming to the pep rally will prove that Michigan students still believe in the maize and blue magic and are far from the "fair-weather fans" other schools like to believe we are.
Viewpoint: A right to guns on campus
By: David Heal
The sooner we can have a debate about gun rights that isn’t pitched as a choice between fictional gun-free communities and noontime shootouts on the Diag, the sooner we’ll be able to talk honestly about the best ways to keep our community safe.
Viewpoint: Battling for life
By: Mary Rock
I hope that we can prove Michigan’s caring spirit in the last few days of Blood Battle. How many lives have you saved today?
