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Issue date: 3/20/09 Section: Commentary
USG's petition for higher tuition increase hurts students' ability to pay
I would like to extend a personal vote of "no confidence" in USG in response to their recent recommendation for an 8.6 percent tuition increase. HOW, I ask, is higher education going to be made available for students when tuition is skyrocketing?
By approving reckless spending during tight fiscal times (the paintball funding being a prime example) and acting without thoughtful consideration, USG does not represent the best interests of the student body. Instead, they have made a mockery of undergraduates through their foolish behavior.
- Christopher Colangelo
8th-semester student
Obama's choice for HHS questionable at best
We have now occurring in the United States, under the leadership of Barack Obama, a holocaust far worse than the "Massacre of the Innocents" when there was mass infanticide under Herod during biblical times. While he was part of the Illinois legislature he voted against the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act - in other words, his vote favored allowing the baby to die, if not outright killing it. You need to understand the character of the person who is now President of the United States.
On July 17, 2007, he promised Planned Parenthood "The first thing I do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act...."
He is in tight with an organization that performs close to 300,000 abortions annually, receives approximately $350 million in taxpayer money a year and has an income of over $1 billion. This "non-profit" organization has an annual profit of approximately $120 million. It is an organization founded by Margaret Sanger, who favored eugenics, as well as many other atrocious things, although Planned Parenthood desperately tries to sanitize her image. There is no doubt of Obama's strong support of Planned Parenthood.
The Freedom of Choice Act would do away with state laws concerning abortion. (As Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada recently said, federal law trumps state law.) It allows for unlimited abortion, including partial birth abortion. It compels taxpayer funding of abortion. It will force faith based hospitals and health care facilities to perform abortions. Many have already said they will close down rather than perform them, depriving people of many other desperately needed medical services. This places our country into a quandary. It does away with parental notification and informed consent. It essentially takes away all barriers to abortion, from conception to nine months.
I would like to extend a personal vote of "no confidence" in USG in response to their recent recommendation for an 8.6 percent tuition increase. HOW, I ask, is higher education going to be made available for students when tuition is skyrocketing?
By approving reckless spending during tight fiscal times (the paintball funding being a prime example) and acting without thoughtful consideration, USG does not represent the best interests of the student body. Instead, they have made a mockery of undergraduates through their foolish behavior.
- Christopher Colangelo
8th-semester student
Obama's choice for HHS questionable at best
We have now occurring in the United States, under the leadership of Barack Obama, a holocaust far worse than the "Massacre of the Innocents" when there was mass infanticide under Herod during biblical times. While he was part of the Illinois legislature he voted against the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act - in other words, his vote favored allowing the baby to die, if not outright killing it. You need to understand the character of the person who is now President of the United States.
On July 17, 2007, he promised Planned Parenthood "The first thing I do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act...."
He is in tight with an organization that performs close to 300,000 abortions annually, receives approximately $350 million in taxpayer money a year and has an income of over $1 billion. This "non-profit" organization has an annual profit of approximately $120 million. It is an organization founded by Margaret Sanger, who favored eugenics, as well as many other atrocious things, although Planned Parenthood desperately tries to sanitize her image. There is no doubt of Obama's strong support of Planned Parenthood.
The Freedom of Choice Act would do away with state laws concerning abortion. (As Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada recently said, federal law trumps state law.) It allows for unlimited abortion, including partial birth abortion. It compels taxpayer funding of abortion. It will force faith based hospitals and health care facilities to perform abortions. Many have already said they will close down rather than perform them, depriving people of many other desperately needed medical services. This places our country into a quandary. It does away with parental notification and informed consent. It essentially takes away all barriers to abortion, from conception to nine months.
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