Pedestrians must take more responsibility for their safety

In the Oct. 1 issue of the Wildcat, Erica Yoder and Brody Burns wrote letters about banning bicycles from the campus ("Bikes should be outlawed to keep campus safe" and "Pedestrians should always have the right of way over bikers"). Both of these articles lacked a reasonable solution and didn't give any perspective on what a valuable tool a bike can be on our campus. [Read article]

America is again under attack. Violent un-American forces have spent the last several days brewing in the Caribbean and are now poised to strike the southern coast of the United States. The offense comes with no demands, no manifesto and no motivation other than to utterly destroy.

Authorities say the attack strategy is three-fold. It aims to cripple us economically, devastate our infrastructure and injure our sense of national pride. [Read article]

I spent this weekend in that great bastion of freedom and democracy known as Washington, D.C., doing the only thing I could bring my bleeding little liberal heart to do: protesting the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. As I lay ferally curled about my backpack on the floor of Baltimore International late Saturday night, desperately trying to sleep for the first time in days, I reflected upon the educational value of the day's events and came to a couple of conclusions. [Read article]