Opinion

One of the rituals that we will soon all go through, in preparation for the end of the semester, is the student evaluation. This is a questionnaire that will ask you to put a number from 1 to 6 (no fence-sitting on the 3 anymore!) on every important aspect of the class experience. Professors can then use this information to improve their courses. Read more...

Change is in the air. Literally.
Thanks to a tender request from a prospective student's parent and subsequent action from a number of current students, the sub-terrainian Northlawn dining hall will now strictly be playing WEMC. With its mission running parallel to EMU's, it is a safe choice for the school - especially with last semester's removal of the "activist and polarizing" program Democracy Now!
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I have recently been intrigued by the conversation on campus regarding faith and reason. Now, I don't wish to speak to specific issues on campus or EMU policy, but rather my hope is to offer a perspective regarding the relationship between these two ideologies which seem so fundamental to the mission of a Christian institution of higher learning. Read more...

In a huge victory for the Republican Party-or as I call it, the "True American's Party"-the Senate passed a bill to allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. The bill is sure to pass Congress, and Bush is already eagerly waiting at his desk with a silly grin and a pen for when the bill appears on his desk.
This is great news!
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On January 14, 2005, the president of Harvard University, Lawrence Summers, suggested that the reason women have not succeeded in the math and sciences is due to an innate difference between men and women. Men are naturally (biologically) more adapted to be better in math and science. These remarks, made at a meeting on women in science, have since received much publicity and a flurry of criticism. Summers has issued an apology. Read more...