Opinion
E-books will inspire new readers
Five years ago the e-book was nearly unheard of, but this month more than 11,000 public libraries across the nation will begin lending Kindle-format e-books through their library websites. The Kindle format joins e-books...
Online education innovators should be wary
Some professors at elite universities are trying to devise a more economical university model, and they are using the Internet to do it. Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford professor, is an advocate of the online university...
Occupy Houston starts national protest trend
The Occupy Wall Street protests are gaining steam — and they’re spreading. Houston, Dallas and Austin are all hosting protests on Thursday, and nearly every major US city is as well. This is exactly how...
Artistic renaissance needed at colleges
Movies aren’t what they used to be. But then again, neither is the mainstream music scene. And it would be a stretch to say that contemporary literature hasn’t taken a recent dive as well. In...
Oil company flare stacks are wasteful, pollute the environment
While grasslands and forests continue to burn across Texas, flames of a more nefarious sort are deliberately marring the state’s landscape and poisoning its air. In acts of environmental mismanagement, the oil industry is routinely...
Amanda Knox case shows media misogyny
Justice has finally come to Perugia, Italy. After spending four years in an Italian prison for a crime she did not commit, Amanda Knox has finally had her murder conviction overturned. One of the most...
Wall Street protestors speak for Coogs
For the past few weeks, protesters have been gathering in larger and larger numbers along the sidewalks of Wall Street. It’s about time. For far too long, Americans have been sitting on the sidelines just...
Criticism of DADT repeal is unfounded
President Obama had some choice words for the 2012 Republican presidential candidates last Saturday. While speaking at the annual Human Rights Campaign fundraising dinner, he rebuked the candidates on their silence in a debate...
Resistance to vaccinations are baseless
Since Andrew Wakefield’s, now thoroughly discredited, Lancet publication regarding so-called links between the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism was released in 1998, the fervor surrounding mandatory vaccinations has swelled to a...
Death penalty is barbaric practice
Troy Davis was recently executed despite the fact that many of the eyewitnesses who testified against him at trial later admitted that they hadn’t seen Davis murder the police officer he was convicted of...