2008 Woodie Awards
Voices Articles
Hate symbols
Nationwide incidents cause for recent legislative bills to be created
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Several months ago and a few weeks before CMU had its own brush with nooses, I wrote a column condemning the hateful symbol and other quiet outrages happening at CMU and elsewhere. I tell you this so you don't freak out when I say that many of the proposed laws aimed at outlawing nooses concern me.
Our readers' voice
Tasteless Lifeline section
I felt that Caitlin M. Foyt's article in Wednesday's paper, to say the very least, could have been more tastefully done. I found it highly offensive to have pictures of dildos on the front page of the section, spanning most of the page. CMU students are not the only ones who have access to this paper.
Our readers' voice
Defining what is offensive
So, I'm reading Friday's Central Michigan Life when I see this letter accusing the paper of engaging in 'yellow journalism' for publishing 'obscene pictures' in the Wednesday edition and I wondered how I could have missed it. Hey, I'm a red-blooded American male and what red-blooded American male would miss the opportunity to check out some obscene pictures in the paper? So I found a copy of the offending issue and imagine my surprise when I found the pictures of these plastic, battery operated toys.
Using a blog as a source
It's interesting to see CM-Life leading with unsubstantiated information gleaned from an online "blog." I look forward to the headline reading: "According to Mary's brother-in-law's daughter's best friend's BFF…" Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Associate pro
CM You
Do you plan on watching the Tigers' opening home game?
Inconsequential
Another Student Government Association election, another year of poor voter turnout. A measly 1,722 students voted in the SGA Presidential Election last week - down from 2,031 in 2007. President-elect and Montgomery senior Paul Pridgeon and running mate and Kingsford junior Brad Sjoquist won the election with 1,067 votes.
Bearing Arms
Court will consider the original meaning the Second Amendment
The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday, March 25: Constitutional law, despite the name, is not solely - or sometimes even primarily - about what the U.S. Constitution says. After 219 years, nearly every passage in the document has been the subject of hundreds of court cases.
