Interview by Monica Kwok Tell me about yourself. I was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, but am Latina at heart… I’m a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences, and my major is far from “decided”, but my academic passions lie in foreign language and culture study, writing, and education. Some of my hobbies are Zumba dancing (I’m an addict!), [...]
Yes, my friends, marriage is what brings us together today. You see, that blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream, was denied yesterday to same sex couples in my home state of New Jersey by straight-talking savior of the Republican Party Chris Christie. The man who more-or-less singlehandedly cut so much money from the state budget that it actually violated [...]
Interview by Michael Soyfer In the current budget climate, when we’re forced to make tough choices, why do you think Congress should continue to fund OJP and generally why do you think the federal government should be involved in the criminal justice system? Most criminal justice in the United States, over 90%, is handled at the state and local level, [...]
It’s been a fabulous month for gays. Earlier today, Governor Chris Gregoire signed into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state. Yesterday, New Jersey’s state Senate passed a bill to recognize same-sex marriage. Last week, California’s Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage was ruled unconstitutional. With these milestones all happening within days of each other, I cannot [...]
My fellow Americans, we are faced with a time of moral crisis. Our misguided government is trying to help people who want to use contraception get their hands on it at little or no cost. Evil organizations like Planned Parenthood seek to use breast cancer screenings to trick us into thinking they care about women’s health, when really they just [...]
The University of Pennsylvania has one of the most permissive speech policies in the country, and that’s a good thing. Free speech allows the best ideas to emerge from a dialogue between thoughtful parties, and the power to censor bad ideas rapidly becomes the power to censor good ones. At least that’s what I’ve been saying to myself this last [...]
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