The crowd has grown belligerent, but Jed Smock remains in his seat, legs crossed and unperturbed. The small congregation of students has encircled him menacingly, perforating his speech with cutting verbal barbs. He pauses as a student hurls a profanity-laden insult, and a small hint of a smile plays across his lips. On this windy Tuesday afternoon, he almost seems to be enjoying this.

Since his calamitous debut on Monday, a debacle that very nearly resulted in his arrest, Smock has created quite a stir on the Alumni Plaza. Spewing rhetoric that is ignorant at best, and anti-Semitic and misogynistic at worst, the evangelist has engendered no small amount of student outrage. But while most of Smock's commentary is certainly shameful, it was the student response Tuesday afternoon that was most disappointing. [Read article]

Administration being sneaky with tuition increase

The administration seems to be trying to pull the wool over students' eyes. In his press release and at a news conference, President Peter Likins announced a proposed tuition increase of $400 (10.01 percent) for resident undergraduates, $500 (3.85 percent) for non-resident undergraduates and $600 (14.12 percent for resident, 4.54 percent for non-resident) for all graduate students. [Read article]

I decided not to press charges, not police

I am writing in response to the article in Tuesday's Wildcat about the incident involving "Brother" Jed Smock. I am the woman he pushed, and while the police did give me the opportunity to press charges, this particular evil agnostic chose to "turn the other cheek" and be satisfied with the police simply telling him that this type of behavior was unacceptable. The article implied that the police made the decision not to press charges when the decision was in fact, made by me. [Read article]