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Seeds of mass destruction in slow motion
by: Mono Vergara - printed on 11-07-2001
I was thinking about the hundred of miles that I have walked freely. I thought about people playing in the fields on a sunny evening. I thought about a Cambodian kid chasing his dog after they went fishing. But suddenly I heard an explosion; the innocent child?s life is over. As another seed of death explodes, another life is taken.
According to the Red Cross, 26,000 people are either killed or injured by Anti Personal [AP] land mines every year.
Monologues Increase Awareness
by: Jamie Worley - printed on 09-25-2002
The Vagina Monologues. The first time I heard the title to this play, I had to suppress a giggle. I looked around at my classmates, trying to gauge how I should react, all the time rolling the word off my tongue. Vaaagggiiinnnaaa …
Getting in touch with your world
by: Meghan Molenda - printed on 09-12-2001
It was 9:15 on Friday morning and I was on my way to logic. I was traveling by foot on one of the many cement pathways that lead the majority of us to our places of thought, learning, confusion, or whatever one would classify exactly how we spend our days on the bluff. Since I was getting closer and closer to being late for the first class of the day I decided to veer off from the normal flow of traffic and blaze a trail of my own through the freshly manicured grass that lies between Mago and Franz.
It's not me, it's you...
by: Kattie Gardner - printed on 04-10-2002
Picture this. You're at a concert you've waited a very long time to attend. You?re excited when the night finally arrives, taking care to make yourself look as fashionable as possible and making sure you get into the venue early enough to snag a spot front and center. It seems as though this concert couldn't get better; you?re about to see two great bands, both of which will be mere feet from where you stand.
At home in Santiago de Chile
by: Claude Pomerleau, C.S.C. - printed on 10-18-2000
My first visit to Chile was in early 1971 to research a dissertation for the University of Denver on the changing relationship between the Catholic Churches of Latin America and the Catholic Church of France.
Umatilla: A call for Congressional investigation
by: Jim McCandlish, J.D. - printed on 04-25-2001
A recent lead editorial in the Oregonian calls for an independent investigation of chemical agent leaks at the Umatilla Chemical Depot. This follows the Oregonian’s lengthy commentary piece which found the Army’s explanation of the September 15, 1999 exposure incident to be misleading and inadequate. Over eight months ago, Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) asked the U.S. Department of Defense to conduct such an investigation.