Housing crunch: 'U' should establish housing policy
At last month's meeting of the University Board of Regents, members called for the development of a long-term housing policy in response to the recent University Housing decisions that restrict upperclass students' options to the University residence halls of Baits, Fletcher, Cambridge and Oxford Housing.
Premature decisions: State should not legislate without research
In an attempt to bridle the raging growth of genetic technology, state Rep. Kirk Profit (D-Ypsilanti) last month introduced House Bill 4846, a proposal to ban "the making of human beings in production labs." Profit's bill will go before the state legislature at the same time as the federal government reviews several bills to limit or end human cloning and related research. His call for legislation comes amidst an international flood of anti-cloning laws, including an agreement signed Monday by 19 European countries to prohibit cloning.
Politicians can actually help people; imagine the possibilities
In the United States, we like to think of education as the great equalizer. We see education as more than just a chance for the intelligent and/or hardworking to better themselves at the tax payers' expense - ideally it is the kindling that ignites young minds so that they might achieve great things despite the limitations of social class or institutional bias. We'd like to believe that through education all men being created equal can be more than a proposition.
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