Web Threatens Self-Expression
By Tina Dilegge,April 27, 2009
With the prevalence of social networking sites and the Internet in general, an array of outlets have opened up for self-expression. Whether it’s blogging about emotional turmoil, updating a Twitter status every five minutes or posting an angry monologue about “unforgivable” situations on YouTube, people have flocked to the Internet, unleashing just about every aspect of their personal lives. I would be an idiot to argue against self-expression; it’s an art, a source of creativity and it’s... Read more »
Drugs: Decriminalize and Legalize
By Tina Dilegge,April 16, 2009
Occasionally, the United States declares war on an abstract concept such as poverty or terror. The war sounds good in theory, since no one particularly likes poverty or terrorism, but people begin scratching their heads, wondering who exactly we’re fighting. In 1971, the United States took a concrete approach and declared an evasive war on an inanimate object: drugs. Like the wars on poverty and terror, the War on Drugs shared the same question of “Who is the enemy?” According to a... Read more »
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April 29, 2010 Issue in Print
