| Vol XXXIII No. 37 |
Thursday, October 14, 1999 |
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Unions, Organizing and Jubilee Justice
Jay Capogrino
For A More Just and Humane World
 Playing poker in the lunchroom, my dad boasted, "Yeah, I told you Randy would never cut it — he was here one week and left whining about his swollen hands. Or Tic's kid; not like his old man. He made it ... [more]
U.S. should treat ethnic cleansing consistently
Gary Sudborough
When an estimated 2000 people had been killed in Kosovo, the United States called it ethnic cleansing, then threatened military force, and finally bombed Yugoslavia for over two months. When 100 times that number of people have been killed in East ... [more]
Russian invasion of Chechnya as terrorism scapegoat feeds cycle of needless violence
Elizabeth Kohl, The Battalion
Recent events in Russia provide a perfect example of how regressively Machiavellian the world has become. Devastated by a series of terrorist explosions in Moscow and Volgodonsk that killed more than 300 civilians, Russia has responded by finding someone to blame ... [more]
Those are our public loves and our private lives
Tim Byrne
Monday was National Coming Out Day, a day for gays and lesbians to celebrate the public declaration of their sexuality. Using conservative estimates of the incidence of homosexuality, one would expect there to be about 600 homosexual students and about 30 ... [more]
`Vox Populi' Indeed
A.J. Boyd
Assistant Viewpoint Editor
When the United States Senate commences deliberation, we may have come to expect flagrant displays of destructive partisanship, materialistic greed and sloppy rhetoric, but at least we can expect them to do something. I wish the same could be said ... [more]
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