Sal Polcino, Editor in Chief
May 14, 2014
In response to more than 20 deaths in school shootings during this year alone, 19 states have introduced legislation to allow students to carry concealed weapons on college campuses. Along with the NRA and the usual pro-gun enthusiasts,...
MARC KOZAK
The Daily Vidette
Illinois State University
November 7, 2006
(U-WIRE) NORMAL, Ill. — Way back on Dec. 13, 2003, United States forces captured former Iraqi President and Gillette Mach 3 Razor Spokesperson Saddam Hussein.
Almost three years later and conveniently two days before U....
November 7, 2006
Read opinion pieces from college journalists about the verdict in Saddam Hussein's trial syndicated from college newspapers around the country.
Also, visit our collegiate news editorial pages to read full-length editorials from the various college newspaper...
ZACHARY T. ECKELS
Kansas State Collegian
Kansas State University
November 7, 2006
(U-WIRE) MANHATTAN, Kan. — Spending the past couple of decades amid the accusations that Saddam Hussein was such a brutal dictator, one would think Sunday's death sentence would be no surprise. It all went exactly as we...
COLLIN SULLIVAN
Daily Collegian
Penn State
November 7, 2006
(U-WIRE) UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Friday's Daily Nebraskan Opinion page suggested to readers that today I would be expounding on my own personal experience in registering to vote in Nebraska. With Election Day arriving in...
CHRIS PAOLI
The Poly Post
Cal Poly-Pomona
November 7, 2006
(U-WIRE) POMONA, Calif. — With the recent sentencing of Saddam Hussein, the timing could not have been better for the Republicans with Tuesday's election potentially swinging the political pendulum.
With the continued co...
BEAU ELLIOT
The Daily Iowan
University of Iowa
November 7, 2006
(U-WIRE) IOWA CITY, Iowa — So Saddam is guilty.
And sentenced to death.
Man, I am, like, so surprised.
I can hardly contain my astonishment. You know how it is when a dictator finally gets his deserved comeuppance.
I mean, it's ...
PATRICK McFAWN
Daily Trojan
USC
November 7, 2006
(U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES — The trial of Saddam Hussein delivered a verdict this weekend, sentencing the former Iraqi dictator to death for crimes against humanity. Despite his request for a death by firing squad, Saddam Hussein...
MAX SCHLUSSELBERG
Badger Herald
University of Wisconsin
November 7, 2006
(U-WIRE) MADISON, Wis. — In response to Saddam Hussein's sentence to death by hanging, President Bush directed a number of encouraging words toward the feeble Iraqi government. He described the event as an essential benchmark...
DAVID KUCINSKAS
Daily Northwestern
Northwestern University
November 7, 2006
(U-WIRE) EVANSTON, Ill. — This past weekend, the fist-waving, Koran-thumping former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging. The decision is sure to provide much fodder for debate, given the contentious...
CURTIS CAMPBELL
The Easterner Online
Eastern Washington University, Cheney
May 19, 2006
Freedom took another nosedive in China this week, when Yang Tianshui, a Chinese Internet writer, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for writing essays. Yes, I said "writing essays."
What could he have possibly written that wo...
MACARENA HERNANDEZ
The Dallas Morning News via The Easterner Online
Eastern Washington U
May 19, 2006
In a world where celebrities are known to embrace humanitarian causes when in need of some image rehab, it is easy to be cynical. Rock stars or movie stars peddling charity for some personal sympathy — who hasn't heard that...
