We present our regular review of selected student journalists and editors. For this week’s edition, they consider the right approach to smoking hookah, America’s misguided Middle East initiatives, a different view of intolerance on campus and how to preserve access to the American Dream.
- Banning hookah smoking isn’t a good idea, but the widely popular practice should also be indulged with greater moderation, says an opinion columnist for the Daily Illini.
- Although issues such as abortion often divide along either/or lines, an op ed writer for the Chicago Maroon explains why it’s fine to be on the fence as well.
- On the other hand, a columnist for The Tech at MIT regards abortion as a “fundamental right” that is increasingly threatened by piecemeal legislative efforts of the GOP.
- The editors of the Minnesota Daily urge the state’s voters to defeat a proposal that would ban same sex marriage.
- A guest writer for the Daily Princetonian examines the idea of campus intolerance from a different angle, and generates some heated discussion.
- Recent predictions of the Apocalypse didn’t pan out, and a regular for the University of New Mexico’s Daily Lobo is actually pretty disappointed.
- With the American Dream becoming ever more elusive for many people, a political columnist for the Michigan Daily offers a practical remedy for preserving it.
- Reflecting on the recent sexual assault charges against IMF chief Domenique Strauss-Kahn, a writer for OSU’s Lantern concludes that there are limits to what can be protected by diplomatic immunity.
- American efforts to democratize the Middle East are disastrously wrong-headed and expensive. There are far more worthy things on which to spend our money here at home, says a political analyst for the University of South Carolina Gamecock.
- A correspondent in the Oregon Daily Emerald argues that students need expanded gun rights on campus.
- An op ed writer for the Stanford Daily thinks that a proposed university divestment policy toward Israel is a very bad idea.
- There are many political organizations at the University of Iowa, but a columnist for the Daily Iowan thinks they’re all talk. She wants to see some action.
