Vote Smith
In the state senatorial race this year, incumbent Alma Wheeler Smith should feel very comfortable about her plans for another term. With her experience and superior ideas, Smith should have no difficulty in representing Michigan's 18th senatorial district for a second term.
Respect
The structure of the University educational community resembles a pyramid: students form the base, faculty forms the top and Graduate Student Instructors are in large part the mediators between the two groups. Without any of these three groups, the University's delicately balanced educational schedule comes crashing to a halt, as was demonstrated April 8 and 9, 1996. Due to a two-month delay in successfully negotiating a new contract with the University, members of the Graduate Employees Organization staged a two-day walkout, effectively causing the educational gears of the University to grind to a halt.
Letters to the Editor
Women really do have it all
In light of the recent National Days of Action, much needed attention has been brought to issues of discrimination, unfairness and ignorance. The nationwide student activism surrounding these events - both the National Days of Action and the National Young Women's Day of Action - was almost akin to the fervent protests and rallies of the '60s. And while the ideologies behind these protests are important, timely, worthwhile and necessary, the NYWDA stood out as a little over-the-top.
10-27-98
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