We present our regular review of selected student journalists and editors. This week, they're interested in foreign policy, romantic texting and summer travel abroad.
- The editors of the Auburn Plainsman take a stand against surging American Islamophobia.
- A writer for The Review at the University of Delaware takes up the same theme, and wonders why the religions of the world can’t coexist.
- At UCal Irvine, the op ed staff of The New University urge returning students to get involved: the pressing budgetary issues in the California system need their attention and response.
- A columnist for The Bates Student takes a look at how texting has enormously complicated the dynamics of traditional romance. It’s probably here to stay, but she wishes it weren’t.
- An op ed writer for the Columbia Spectator argues that there’s a very long way to go before gender discrimination has been eliminated in the workplace.
- The copy editor at the Denver University Clarion agrees, and urges today’s college women to go for it: not only can they “have it all,” they must.
- At Rice University, a writer for The Thresher notes past failures of US strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan, and urges the Obama administration to finish the job right this time.
- “Diversity” is not simply about numbers and statistics, and the editors of U of Va.’s Cavalier Daily suggest that the university take a more nuanced approach.
- A news item from Western Washington University’s Western Front describes the many benefits of a new “gender inclusive” undergraduate housing option.
- Just back from a summer in China, a writer for The Dartmouth tells readers that the country bears little resemblance to the prevalent media image in the United States.
- A upperclassman writing in the GW Hatchet offers incoming freshmen a dose of reality about the value of a college education.
- Although he’s gung-ho-for-green, a writer for the Williams College Record hopes that he can be green and have fun as well.
