Recent Stories

• Point/Counterpoint: Are biofuels the answer to energy crisis?

  Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009

  My friends, we live in an ever shrinking world filled with unceasingly expanding industry and development. All of this expansion and growth doesn’t just happen ...
• COLUMN: Several legal options offer alternatives to peer-to-peer networks

  Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009

  Recently OU announced that it would be limiting the use of and access to peer-to-peer networks over Internet connections provided by the university.
• COLUMN: Nobel Prize has become hollowed, political award

  Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009

  Recently, our president was awarded the very prestigious Nobel Peace Prize. This is an award that has been, in the past, reserved only for those ...
• COLUMN: Stories are lost as violence increases

  Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009

  At the insistence of my sister, and with the malicious promise of forcing my roommate to pay to watch a movie he had decried as ...
• COLUMN: Google Books: The future of the written word

  Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009

  My friends, the digital age is truly upon us! Modern technology has opened up new windows and given us access to worlds our ancestors could ...
• COLUMN: Anti-tobacco bill a step in wrong direction

  Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009

  In the United States around 21 percent of the population smokes or uses a tobacco based product. To this near quarter of our population, I ...
• COLUMN: Cash for Clunkers a misguided venture

  Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009

  This summer was a time of great activity for many of us, and I’m sure plenty of my fellow students had a fantastic time hanging ...
• COLUMN: Swine flu foolishness

  Monday, May 4, 2009

  Over the last couple of weeks nothing has been more prominent in the news than the dreaded swine flu. A number of countries, including Argentina, ...
• COLUMN: Obama made right move with CIA

  Tuesday, April 21, 2009

  Last Thursday, President Barack Obama decided to absolve a group of Central Intelligence Agency members for their supposed crimes while interrogating terror suspects.
• COLUMN: Recycling means more than just cans nowadays

  Tuesday, April 7, 2009

  E-waste is any one of the technological devices we use today that has, or is going to be, discarded. It can be anything from a ...