Opinion
A Call for a Palestinian CAMERA
A Stanford student attending events sponsored by the Coalition for Justice in Israel / Palestine (CJIP), Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), or the Stanford Israel Alliance (SIA) will hear a lot of accusations of media bias. The major problem is that only one of these groups - the SIA - can point to an organization that proves its point in a rigorous way. That pro-Israel news-monitoring organization is the Committee for Accurate Middle Eastern Reporting in America, or "CAMERA," www.camera.org. ....Full story.....by Aaron Masters

Abortion: Depoliticizing Death
This week is the thirtieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Depending on your political perspective, this is either a source of great frustration or considerable celebration. While my own opinion on the matter will be readily apparent, I do take issue with the increasing politicization of abortion; the party divisions over a subject as important and final as abortion only serve to obfuscate the essential character of something that, whether you defend it as the woman's right to choose or a ghastly justification for infanticide, it is still a matter of life and death. Part of the problem hindering intelligent debate on the subject of abortion is the manner in which one party has made it a matter of women's rights and constitutional individualism. This will be discussed shortly; in the present, the more serious subject is the argument that a newly conceived child is not a person, and therefore not the benefactor of the same rights as his or her mother. ....Full story.....by William E. Hudson

Bush Action Trumps Dem. Indecision
The Bush administration has been purposely vague in defining its intentions in Iraq. The administration continues to slide back and forth between the goals of regime change and disarmament. Although one may validly criticize the administration for not making its policies clearer, one would have a difficult time claiming the administration is ignoring the problem of Iraq. As President Bush explores many possible solutions to the Saddam problem, one thing has remained constant: Daschle, Gore, and nearly every other Democrat, save Sen. Joe Biden, has had some gripe, complaint, or otherwise negative comment to make. My question to the Democrats is if Bush's policy is so bad, what is your alternative solution? ....Full story.....by Stephen Cohen

Students Forced to Support Groups?
As part of the bill for tuition, student fees, room, and board, every Stanford student pays ASSU general and special fees each quarter that go to various student groups, such as the Stanford Band, Club Sports, and the Sexual Health Peer Resource Center. However, not very many students know that they can request refunds for these fees. Furthermore, even fewer students realize that all of these groups will get the same amount of money regardless of how many people request refunds. ....Full story.....by Charles Hallford

Only Fry the Certainly Guilty
Illinois Governor George Ryan claims that the death penalty process fails to properly discriminate between solid cases and cases where arbitrariness may be at work or doubts about guilt may remain. His answer? To commute the death sentences of all 167 death row inmates in Illinois, utterly failing to even try to discriminate between solid cases and cases where arbitrariness may be at work or doubts about guilt may remain. In an act of pure hypocrisy, he has released the most certainly guilty of his state's most depraved murderers into the general prison population where they can never face any additional punishment for any further indulgence of their predatory lusts. ....Full story.....by Alec Rawls

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