To Pro-lifers, from a Survivor
(04/12/12 7:32am)
The following is a letter written by a friend of mine.
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The following is a letter written by a friend of mine.
Rhatican's argument is grounded on the assumption that all humans have a right to life.
Brendan Rhatican recently wrote an interesting opinion piece on the rights of an unborn child to life. Unfortunately, his piece is so ridden with ambiguity, assumptions and hypotheticals that it would be nearly impossible to fully respond to each point in a lifetime with an absolute truth.
This letter is addressed primarily to my friends in the graduating class of 2012, many of whom I have known since they were freshmen; however, I suspect the current juniors, sophomores and freshmen might be able to take something away from it as well.
1. If the embryo is living and human, then it should not be aborted.
'Twas the day after Pig Roast, and all through our school, not a Spider was stirring, as a general rule.
I would like to now inform you that your basic rights as U.S. citizens are being stripped away from you as I write this letter.
Beer pong. It's a game that has brought children and families together for decades now. You throw a ball and end up with a friend.
Immediately after the release of the Kony 2012 video, countless criticisms were made of the video itself and the Invisible Children organization. After looking at the criticisms, I found them to be unworthy of discrediting the organization and the campaign. I want to address these arguments in hopes of giving the movement its credibility back. I write this keeping in mind that I may still find an argument, which would make me doubt the integrity of the organization.
Last spring, CBS and Turner Sports reached an agreement with the NCAA to pay it around $11 billion over 14 years for sole broadcasting rights of the NCAA basketball tournament.
The sun is out, the birds are singing, pollen is everywhere--whether we like it or not, summer's right around the corner. This week puts us right in the middle of one of the most ridiculous times on campus: fall course registration. There should legitimately be some sort of psych study conducted about registration, if only to entertain the researchers.
My name is Terence Malone, I am a 2006 graduate of the University of Richmond, and I wanted to share some thoughts about the passing of Mike Ice.
I'm a pretty cold-hearted person, so when people start talking about how sad they are that we're graduating soon, I usually just let my eyes glaze over and start thinking about what I need to buy at the grocery store this week.
I knew when I weighed the decision last spring whether to become editor or not that the year was going to be a long one. I knew I wouldn't be sleeping much, I'd be stressed and I would struggle to keep my perfectionist tendencies in check. I didn't expect to have as much fun as I did, learn as much from my intelligent and creative staff members as I did or be as proud as I have been.
With more than 76 million views, Kony 2012 has taken the Internet by storm on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook. This 30-minute viral video, produced by advocacy organization Invisible Children (IC), aims to make Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony famous "not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice." Kony's infamous Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) originated in Northern Uganda and is known for its egregious human rights abuses, widespread child abductions and extensive use of child soldiers. But Kony 2012 offers an important lesson that has little to do with the realities of the LRA. Instead, Kony 2012 offers a sobering lesson on the dangers of misinformation.
Michael Ice, nicknamed "Ice" by his friends, was a friendly, happy, outgoing young man with an inviting smile that never left his face.
Every day, throughout the state, and all over the country, people undergo all kinds of medical procedures. To have these procedures done, a preliminary procedure is performed to eliminate potential risks and surprises.
Nico Doreste's comparison between a medical procedure and rape in his submission, "Government rape: Ultrasounds," to The Collegian last week was beyond ridiculous. It may be news to Nico, but women willingly have instruments stuck into their vaginas by doctors all the time. Making that kind of procedure mandatory, given the desire to have an abortion, is hardly rape.
We are halfway through the semester,and it has dawned on me that the frustration I have had during the past several weeks has not been school-related, but rather related to job opportunities on campus. It seems that, although there is an up-to-date list of job openings on the financial aid website, it is challenging to receive a reply from any of the prospective positions.
I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. In a recent article published by "The Guardian" called "Top five regrets of the dying," this was cited as the most common regret of all, according to an Australian nurse who cared for patients during the last 12 weeks of their lives.