Campus Politics: This Week in SGA
I’d like to begin this article with a correction. I stated in my article of March 4 that the parking proposal in front of the Student Government Association would reduce the number of…
On the Constitutionality of Healthcare Reform
Last week, the House of Representatives passed the Senate’s healthcare reform bill, sending it to President Obama for his signature or veto. As the President was signing the document into law, however, the…
Campus Politics: A Look at SGA’s Current Projects
This past week’s meeting featured two major proposals. The more straightforward of these was a proposal to change the Environmental Modeling Committee’s proposal to purchase Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) to cover the school’s…
Campus Politics: A Look at SGA’s Current Projects
The Student Government Association’s meeting this past Thursday included debates over two issues: whether or not to purchase ‘renewable energy certificates’ to offset the college’s use of electricity generated from non-renewable energy sources,…
Campus Politics: A Look at SGA’s Current Projects
Editor’s Note: Daniel Hartsoe will be writing a regular column concerning the goings-on at Student Government Association meetings This past Thursday the Student Government Association (SGA) discussed several different issues in their weekly…
Corporate America
On January 21, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down parts of what is known as ‘campaign-finance law’ from its decision in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC). The case was…
How to Prevent Another Financial Crisis
Last Thursday, the Economics Department sponsored a lecture on the causes of the financial crisis and the policies needed to avert future crises. The speaker was Dr. L. Randall Wray, professor of economics…
Celebrating the Fall of the Berlin Wall: German Dept. Faculty Reflect on Tumultuous Moment in History
The 9th of November twenty years ago saw the fall of a barrier that divided the city of Berlin for twenty-eight years. From when it was erected to when it was torn down,…
A Very Selective Singer
In his lecture at Conn on October 23, Peter Singer, Professor of Ethics at Princeton University, claimed that ‘there is something wrong with not helping those in need’. First, this claim begs a…
Response to “The Cost of Inaction”
Last week’s op-ed ‘The Cost of Inaction’, a reaction to the panel discussion of Peter Singer’s ideas that took place on the 23rd of October, contained numerous fallacies. First, the writer agrees with…
The Public Option
The leaderships of the Executive Branch and of both houses of the Legislative Branch have proposed enacting a government-sponsored health insurance company, or ‘public option,’ to compete with private insurers to ensure that…
Healthcare Mandates
In both the House of Representatives and the Senate, Congressmen are currently debating proposals to solve the healthcare predicament in this country. Some of these proposals, however, will not correct the perversions of…
Tax Reform and Healthcare Analysis
I made the case for creating a national regulatory system to ensure that a competitive national market for health insurance would replace the uncompetitive separate state health insurance markets that exist today. While…
Regulatory Reform
The United States is currently absorbed in a national debate on whether, how and to what degree the current way that healthcare is provided to the people of this country should be changed….
