Spending for seats: Candidates should impose voluntary caps
Free pizza, ice cream coupons and hundreds of signs and flyers all over campus characterized Michigan Student Assembly elections last week - costing candidates hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars. On Tuesday, MSA will vote on an amendment to its compiled code that would recall elected representatives who spent more than $500 during elections. The need for some sort of control on campaign spending is obvious, but MSA should not impose mandatory spending caps on candidates.
Denying decency: Court must overturn unconstitutional CDA
Last week, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments concerning the Communications Decency Act. The CDA, which passed Congress early last year, represented the first major challenge to free speech on the Internet. Created to shield children from material deemed "obscene" or patently offensive, the law's vague language immediately attracted criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union and various other free-speech advocates - including millions of computer users worldwide.
Hypocrisy and the recruiting game rule college athletics
When one of my friends applied to another Big Ten school as a recruited football player, his application form had "athlete" stamped on it in red ink.
Right from the beginning, the distinction had been made.
03-24-97
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