Different Perspectives

One final editor’s note

I started off my term talking about the questionable future of print journalism. My position on the issue (that journalism will thrive, but in a different form) stands. But I think it’s for different reasons.

   Liz Kalkowski    3/18/2010 - 11:02 PM    Post your comment
Ladies, wear your ‘no pants’ with pride

My name is Ashley Abramowicz and I don’t wear pants.

Don’t worry, I do. But not according to UIUCNoPants.com, a blog created to reveal the humor of a growing trend on our campus: leggings.

   Ashley Abramowicz    3/17/2010 - 10:12 PM    Post your comment
Students urged to consider other spring break options

With only a few more exams, papers and lectures standing in the way, a well-deserved break is just around the corner. College students around the country will soon be packing their bags and migrating to warmer climates for a week of sun, sand and a lot of alcohol.

   Micah Rumsey    3/17/2010 - 10:09 PM    Post your comment
New ‘Coffee Party’ might just be your cup of tea

It all started with a Facebook status update. Frustrated with the media’s endless coverage of the Tea Parties, documentary filmmaker Annabel Park decided to jot down her thoughts in the following message: “Let’s start a coffee party... smoothie party. red bull party. anything but tea... ooh how about cappuccino party? that would really [bother] ‘em because it sounds elitist...”

   Jason Febery    3/16/2010 - 10:43 PM    9 comments
Sticks, stones and a few words that really can hurt

I swear. I have been known to come up a few letters short of damnation. I have told “it” to quiet down. There are a few donkeys in my life, and sometimes it just feels good to drop an F-bomb or two. Of course when I was young I was given the “swearing is bad” spiel and my parents did very little cursing around me. For a good amount of time I could recognize those dirty words when I heard them; but, I came across them so infrequently I scarcely knew their pronunciations, let alone how to use them appropriately.

   Philip Johnson    3/16/2010 - 10:36 PM    Post your comment
"Party of No" betrays own values to remain stubborn

Congress finally threw some peanuts to the elephants, but the stubborn pachyderms still refused to move. Even with a handful of Republicans supporting the new Bipartisan Jobs Bill, the majority of the GOP chose to filibuster the new piece of legislation that passed the Senate this week. Unfortunately for the political right, they have further cemented themselves as “The Party of No.”

   Micah Rumsey    3/16/2010 - 11:07 AM    1 comment
Curbing obesity in America relies on personal, not government, change

Many states are beginning to use “sin taxes” as a means to mend struggling budgets. New York is currently fighting for a penny-per-ounce soda tax to create revenue and even, in New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s opinion, “save lives.”

   Megan Graham    3/15/2010 - 10:11 PM    2 comments
College students not in position to judge administrative, faculty salaries

Right up front, I’m going to make a confession. I spent several minutes thumbing through the Salary Guide that The Daily Illini published last week.

   Jared Hall    3/15/2010 - 10:03 PM    10 comments
Live your life without “don’ts”

Mary may be on the brink of adult life, but she is still told no several times a day. She has decided that the time has come, to start making her own decisions.

   Mary Schaubert    3/14/2010 - 10:18 PM    1 comment
Thou shalt not drink soda: yet another sin tax?

The government loves to tell us what to do with our money. Taxes rise to fund lawmakers’ policies, get us out of debt accumulated by wasteful spending by past lawmakers and to fund elegant dinners for fancy bigwigs. There are even divisions of taxes: sales tax, property tax, stamp duty, payroll tax, income tax and even a sin tax. Yes, we get taxed for “sinning”.

   Colleen Lindsay    3/14/2010 - 10:14 PM    5 comments
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