We present our regular review of selected student journalists and editors. This week, they size up anti-smoking codes, cracking down on texting drivers and due process rights for accused terrorists.
- The editors of UCLA’s Daily Bruin think that more social science course offerings should incorporate community service components among their requirements, so that students can get some hands-on practical experience.
- Anti-smoking regulations may be well intended, writes a regular for The Wheel at Emory University, but you’ve got to make a more direct case with the smokers themselves.
- And how, says a political science major in The GW Hatchet. Can anyone really expect to get a job with the type of liberal education he’s been getting as an undergraduate?
- It’s bad enough that we’re headed for a “fiscal train wreck,” says a regular writer for The Dartmouth. Even worse, though, is the fact that absolutely nobody in Washington – Democrats, Republicans, the lot of ‘em - has a clue.
- A columnist for The Lantern at Ohio State tries to make sense of terrorism and concludes that he can’t.
- A contingent from the Westboro Baptist Church is coming to East Lansing in the near future. Don’t pay any attention to them, advise the editorial board of MSU’s State News.
- Fat Studies is a good thing for the most part, says a staffer for The Sophian at Smith College. But she also offers a couple of reservations about the emerging discipline which its proponents should heed.
- A columnist for the Temple News thinks we’ve got to get over our addiction to super-models and sleek athletes, which drives our intolerance of obese folks.
- Texting while driving is a major cause of serious road accidents, and the editors of The Oklahoma Daily think we need to really throw the book at violators.
- It’s a worthy goal to increase the graduation rate of college football players, says a writer for Oregon’s The Daily Emerald. But please, don’t baby them in the process, either.
- Commenting on the recent trial of Ahmed Khaflan Ghailani, a columnist for the Johns Hopkins Newsletter argues that the Constitution’s due process provisions should be extended to alleged terrorists, as they are to any other criminal defendants.
- Public education in the United States is in very sad shape, says an op ed writer for The New Hampshire, and he offers some suggestions for straightening out the mess.
