opinions


"Lowering the bar" for athletes

By | May 20, 2004, midnight | In Op/Ed »

I would like to offer a counter opinion to two articles written earlier in the school year regarding athletic ineligibility at Blair. As the varsity baseball coach, assistant athletic director and Blair alumnus (class of 1980), it pains me that our athletic teams have not been as successful recently as some of our up-county rivals, but there are understandable reasons for this, and I think the aforementioned articles are somewhat misleading in their representations of cause and effect.


Withdrawal of troops improves hopes of democracy

By | April 26, 2004, midnight | In Op/Ed »

The newly elected Spanish government removal of Spanish troops from Iraq is an act of democracy that followed through on campaign promises. The move will protect the lives of Spanish citizens, while improving and changing the country's policy on the conflict.


In Defense of Public Education

By | March 5, 2004, midnight | In Op/Ed »

In a lecture before an audience skeptical of new and less rigid educational practices a renowned progressive educator named Dean Hollis Caswell of Teacher's College at Columbia University delivered a speech in which he claimed that:


Your thoughts: September 11

By | Sept. 10, 2003, midnight | In Op/Ed »


Past Iraq polls

By | April 7, 2003, midnight | In Op/Ed »


Discussion forum about war in Iraq

By | March 12, 2003, midnight | In Op/Ed »


Chickens Go Swimming

By Chester Lam | Oct. 10, 1992, 4:24 p.m. | In Humor »

Swimming chickens witnessed by scientists could point to a major evolutionary change.

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