This week, the world has gone green. With Earth Day having occurred Tuesday, and the entire NBC family of television channels declaring that "Green is Universal," The Stentor will use its last editorial of the academic year to address environmental issues on campus.
I would like to thank The Stentor for teaching me an important lesson that I will carry into my endeavors of becoming a journalist in graduate school and my future career, wherever it may take me.
I have learned that the Western world does not care about Muslims.
The Editorial Board of The Stentor must respond to Feride Yalav's letter to the editor accusing this paper of, among other things, censorship and an anti-Palestinian bias.
The 2008 Presidential election is indeed like no other in recent memory. In a profound sense, we are all witnesses to current history, and the outcome will probably engender a substantive transformation of modern American domestic and foreign policy initiatives.
One issue which concerns me is how the media portrays gay individuals and gay culture.
I find the portrayal of gays in main-stream media as both superficial and without complexity.
Gay people often are employed as the comedic one-dimensional side show to the more serious development of straight characters.
"My internship with Ragdale, the artist colony in Lake Forest, led to a full-time job." -Emily Forsgren '08 "I am looking for work in banking or consulting, but I have had no luck so far. Right now I work at Portillo's in Vernon Hills." - Olga Samoylyuk '08 "I have a full-time job at New Vision Athletics in the Lake Bluff/Lake Forest area.
Everyone has a pattern. For me, it is self-sabotage. I frequently make terrible decisions that I know will bring me nothing but misery, but misery is epic and glamorous; everyone knows that.
Sometimes, however, my just-barely subconscious pursuit of poetic glamour can be inconvenient.
For my last column of the year, I have decided to address an incident that many of you are well aware of by now but definitely warrants attention.
During Friday's lunch period, the College Republicans hosted a Gates Center approved event, entitled "Traditional Marriage Day," at the tables outside of the Hart Dining Hall.
