Hello! Obama is not a Muslim, and why the Hell should it matter?

Newshounds has a good article on a recent FOX/FAUX news story about Obama and his religion.  A new book out called The Faith of Barack Obama written by Stephen Mansfield investigates the history of Barack Obama’s religious beliefs.  Stepehen is an ultra-conservative Christian and his findinds were?  That Obama is a very devout Christian.
FOX’s take [...]

The Death of Parody in Colleges and Universities

There is an excellent editorial about humor, comedy, satire, and parody on college campuses at the Boston Pheonix by Harvery Silverglate.  In it he discusses the beginnings of the downfall of parody at Harvard, and how the backlash against parody and satire reverberates today with the unlawful conduct of Colorado College against two men who [...]

Math and ‘Intrinsicness’

So the gender discrepancy in math has been defeated.  Hooray.  I know women can be just as good as men at math, the math department at NDSU has more women students then men and most of them are amazingly brilliant.  I am still upset though.
When are we gonna address the claim that women are better [...]

Kids Freedom Goes down the Drain at Texas High School

At a public Texas High School, students freedoms of expression are being curtailed by the school board.  According to the Associated Press article Prison Jumpsuits Await Gonzales School Dress Code Violators,

“GONZALES — Violating Gonzales High School’s dress code is not a crime, but some of the offenders are about to start looking a lot like [...]

NACURH ‘09

So if you’ll remember I have written several posts about the University of Delaware and their thought reform program, and how my school NDSU is adopting a similar program next year.  Well as president of my school’s Residence Hall Association, I attended the NACURH ‘08 conference (National Association of College and University Residence Halls Inc.) [...]

NDSU Jumps in Bed with the University of Delaware

I know I published a positive article on the Living Learning Program for the summer issue of our school newspaper, but now I feel that it was a big mistake. I just found the pamphlet that we got at one of RHA meetings outlining the diversity plan for Res-Life for next year, and if [...]

Is the Pregnant Transman heroic, or Selfish?

Feminist sites like Jessica Valenti’s feministing.com and Amanda Marcotte’s Pandagon blog are hailing the pregnant transman as a hero for transgender rights.  This person who was born a woman, and then legally changed his gender to a male one, kept his female reproductive organs and recently got pregnant.  They hail this as proof that anyone [...]

NDSU is finally on the national stage… for all the wrong reasons.

Last week was the Mr. NDSU contest.  It’s usually pretty good, a fake pageant where the contestants raise several thousand dollars for diabetes research.  This year however the event was marred, by the Saddle and Sirloin club entry.  Their lip-synching skit was a parody of the YouTube video “I have a crush on Barack Obama.”  [...]

Hillary starts throwing mud

 
Now that Hillary has officially woken up and realized that February 5th didn’t seal the nomination for her like she thought it would, Hillary is going to the only other play she knows will work, since Bush used it twice to get his presidency.  She’s started throwing mud at Obama.  Recently, she gave a photo [...]

Olbermann Does it again

So, two weeks ago, Bush tried to scare everyone into giving him the telecom immunity bill he wanted, but amazingly, the Democrats found their spine and stood up to him, refusing to pass a FISA bill that let ATT and Verizon off the hook for their illegal wiretapping of Americans since 9-11.  It seems like [...]