In the last issue of The Lawrentian, the editorial board chose to print an anonymous letter to the editor concerning, among other things, the situation with the Greek system and the new formal group housing policy changes. Though infrequent, printing anonymous editorials is not unethical, and in this case we felt it necessary.
Although sometimes I am ashamed to live in a state that elected and then continued to re-elect Tommy, I am proud to live in one of the only twelve states that has no death penalty statute. I know you are thinking, “What! That’s ridiculous! The death penalty is a heinously inhumane act that is racist, unjust, murders innocent people, and empowers our government to take the very breath we breathe.
The fourteenth amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in the wake of the Civil War in order to secure "the freedom of the slave race," according to Supreme Court Justice Samuel F. Miller (1873). However, very soon after its ratification the Supreme Court, our "impartial" institution of defining justice, transformed the amendment to serve the interests of corporations.
Tony Blair recently tried to convince leaders in Israel and Palestine that their ongoing conflict could be solved by rational, civil negotiation. The British prime minister compared the struggling peace process to Northern Ireland's problems, saying it might take "as many years to get people round a table to talk about their differences and solve it.
As a recent graduate of Lawrence, I find that distance allows me to better appreciate my four-year education. I matriculated under the impression that Lawrence was a premier liberal-arts school, with a competant faculty and good facilities. And I still believe this.
In "Anthrax lecture explains elements of bioterrorism" from the Nov. 2 issue of The Lawrentian, there were several factual inaccuracies. First, anthrax is a bacterium, not a virus. Second, Professor Perrault said "Antibiotics will not fight the virus" referring to the small pox virus, not anthrax.