Without warning: ITD policies hurt academic atmosphere
The Information Technology Division changed a lot of its policies in the past few months - most of them detrimental to students. Its newest policy will cut off essential
computing services to those with insufficient funds in their computing accounts. ITD is leaving students stranded without warning.
Informed change: Marijuana should be legal for medicine
Toto, it's not the '60s anymore. California and Arizona residents have realized this progression, and passed laws to make marijuana legal for medicinal purposes. The White
House denounced both laws, and, a week later, promised to spend $1 million to study scientific evidence on the effectiveness of medicinal marijuana. That the White House would even consider amending its classic "just say no" stance is impressive. But the study seems to ignore other medical research, which shows that marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known.
On Ingmar Bergman and passing time
Ingmar Bergman's ability to expose man's daily struggle, what Camus called "the nakedness of man before the absurdity of life," is unsurpassed in cinematic history. His films dramatize, and thereby evoke, the full gamut of human emotions: from disgust to joy and everything in between.
Letters to the Editor
10 years ago in the Daily ...: Do away with language requirement
LSA faculty members want to make incoming students in the fall of 1988 take a language competency test. The test would determine how much, if any, foreign language instruction a student should be forced to endure. Rather than expand language requirements, the University should consider doing away with them altogether.
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