Category: Opinion

While the issue of outsourcing is hardly mentioned anymore in the current news cycle, it is one of the most relevant issues of our generation because it could affect many people’s employment prospects. Even I will acknowledge that outsourcing is not a sexy topic, I mean the country is at war and elections are coming up, but in a college full of engineers and industrial technology students (The two hot job exports right now) the concern over outsourcing must have crossed their minds at least once.

In recent years, global warming has been an increasingly hot topic in the voice of the media and the ears of the mainstream. As the issue of global climate change has been continually politicized, opinions and statistics have been thrown at the public from every direction.

You’re only going to have a few days to register to vote before the Nov. 7election by the time this column is published, if you haven’t already, and that really should give you a reason to hurry.

Now you can give me every excuse in the book about why you’re not going to vote this time around, such as “it’s only a mid-term election, nothing important is being voted on,” or “I don’t know what’s on the ballot,” but I am not buying it.

While the release of “Jackass 2” is a hit among college students, there is a time and place where it might be appropriate to be like your onscreen “Jackass” favorites. The classroom, however, is not one of those places. In this guide to life, I will provide you with the various classifications of Jackasses so that you know what to look for in others and what to avoid doing yourself.

I can’t quite claim the original Nintendo Entertainment System as the system that got me hooked.

You know, the gray and red box in which 8-bit game cartridges got stuck, froze and you had to blow on them to get them to work.

I wish I could. But being born the year it came out (1985), it was my older friends who ditched homework to clutch that awkward, blocky controller.

“Where were you Sept. 11?”

The tragic events of that day in 2001 have become a landmark event for our generation. For our parents, the question is, “Where were you when President Kennedy was shot?” For our grandparents, the question is, “Where were you when Pearl Harbor was bombed?”

Each generation’s calamity is so shocking, most people will remember what they were doing the exact moment they heard Kennedy was assassinated or the Trade Towers demolished.

When I’m around other twenty-somethings chatting indiscriminately about relationships, I have no qualms referring to my significant other as my boyfriend.

But at certain times, usually around the older and wiser, the word “boyfriend” sounds awkward coming out of my mouth.

It might not be strewn across TV screens and newspaper headlines every day like the pictures of Kim Jong-il or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but right now poverty is a bigger threat to the health and stability of this world than the “Axis of Evil.” Every day 30,000 people die because they are too poor to afford food or medicine.