The wave of violence erupting in Iraq last week after the bombing of a Shiite shrine has spawned an elaborate discussion on civil war and sectarian violence. The feasibility of the three major Iraqi groups – Shiite, Sunni and Kurd – living in any sort of working democracy is looking challenging at best…

The growing skepticism of science and the poor plight of science education in the United States are making a splash in the news media lately. The December edition of Reader’s Digest ran an article entitled, “It’s America’s Brain Drain Crisis,” citing that 50 percent of our gross national product depends on science and technology…

Valentine’s Day is over, and your feelings as to its passing likely depend on which side of the romantic fence you happen to be on. Whether you proclaimed enthusiastically “I believe in a thing called love,” or smirked at the “shiny happy people holding hands” you were forced to think about love…

It has been said by many people that Sept. 11 shattered the American sense of invulnerability. Instead of accepting the vulnerability that most of the rest of the world already lives with, we seem to want something that nobody can give us: we want to erase our vulnerability…

In 1970, almost 200 countries signed a document urging nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. The Non-Proliferation Treaty seemed to signal the end of the nuclear age in which the five countries possessing such weapons – the United States, Britain, Russia, China and France – would assist other nations in the development of peaceful nuclear energy instead of weapons…

Year upon year, the month of January consistently arrives as a month of advice. In New Years’s resolution fashion, a call for renewal echoes in the dead of winter, and the latest wisdom filters down from the sages of our present day. Already 2006 is featuring the advice of many on everything from self-help to full-scale social reform…

It has been a number of years since lead singer Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows first sang, “It’s been a long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.” Reflecting on these past words in the new year, it is remarkable how true they ring…

Critique on the Bush administration came out of an interesting bit of news this week – not Iraq, Congress or anything to do with hurricanes, but the White House Christmas card. The religious right is up in arms because the card wishes a happy “holiday season” to 1…

With Thanksgiving quite literally “under our belts” and the holidays fast approaching, people are once again expressing concern over the notorious holiday weight gain. With time, weather and the number of daylight hours working against them, many Americans annually glom onto high-calorie sweets like cholesterol in a clogging artery…

This past week, as the leaves of golden brown were surrendering back to the earth and the green pine needles held the only remaining claim to the sky, the earthly ships were flying different flags. I, like most students, headed home to mark this changing of the guard – autumn into winter…

In response to the debate surrounding the nomination of another Supreme Court Justice and its impending connections with Roe v. Wade, I started a discussion last week on the issue of abortion. I concluded that the argument concerning abortion is divisive and stagnant…

News of President Bush’s recent Supreme Court nomination has sent the network of political organizations spinning into a frenzy. The main focus concerns a shift of the court to the right, and the impending consequences for previous rulings like Roe v. Wade…

This past week, debate about the issue of diversity continued on the WSU campus. Many people contributed to the discussion either in last Monday’s special look at diversity in the Evergreen, or during a panel discussion sponsored by various multicultural groups in the CUB…

American culture is one that prides itself on righteousness. It is this sense that enabled our founding fathers to generate the Declaration of Independence, and it is arguably this same sense of righteousness that fostered an oppressive system of slavery, dividing American culture for more than two centuries…

When ties and blazers begin to replace flip flops and sweatshirts you know something important is underway on campus. This past week’s career fair incited many students to get serious about the afterlife, that is, the after-college-life. The implications of an impending death ring true in either case…