We are nearing the end of another semester. A quick glance around Columbus Circle indicates that we are already knee-deep in the holiday season. There is much talk of scaling back holiday purchases this year in light of the recession, and this year’s Black Friday was no exception.
Space Migration is Humanity’s Best, Well, Only Chance for Survival
Imagine a bucket of sand, just plain, lifeless sand. Then imagine a flower bed, a bee hive, a flock of birds, a cat, a dog or a human child. Compare these two things, the lifeless and the living; measure them and weigh them. Imagine that the child and the sand weigh exactly the same, contain the same number of atoms.
Is the Hawkish Senator Clinton Really the Best Fit for Obama’s New Diplomacy?
On the campaign trail, Barack Obama promised a “Team of Rivals.” This was a reference to President Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet, which consisted of Lincoln’s major rivals for the Republican Presidential nomination. Open any history book, and you’ll learn that “yes men” don’t make wise leaders and that they often reach the same narrow conclusions.
The first class registration is a rigorous, usually solitary process that initiates students into the complicated world of class availability at Fordham College at Lincoln Center. You learn through experience when you realize the class you wanted is closed or at the same time as another class—or even not available at all.
As reported previously in The Observer, on Oct. 29 Fordham Law School awarded the Fordham-Stein Ethics Award to Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer. Many prominent Catholic groups, as well as New York’s Cardinal Edward M. Egan, have protested the choice because of Breyer’s support for abortion rights.
President-elect Obama’s New Web site Seeks to Give Power to the People
Change is a word Americans have become accustomed to hearing a lot more frequently ever since Barack Obama used it as the central theme of his presidential campaign. He promised that a vote for him would be the “Change You Can Believe In.” After winning the race to become the 44th President of the United States, Obama has capitalized on America’s desire for change by creating www.
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Dear Editor, The one thing that I remember best about my years at Fordham was the way that the professors always emphasized that every group has a right to speak out about anything with which they disagree. Therefore, I was very surprised to read that Professor Paul Levinson objected to a pro-life group protesting against the awarding of the Fordham-Stein Ethics Award to Justice Stephen G.
