It's almost the end of the semester and many male students are turning to video games, instead of the Internet, to relieve some much built-up stress. Although video games are as much open to girls as they are to guys, the realm of fantasy has been chiefly a man's domain. Madden 2005, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Shrek 2 are only a few video games that men have been drooling over for the past months; now there is Halo 2. Halo 2 was released Tuesday, and a line of more than 50 people braved the frigid midnight winds of Tucson to wait outside of Replay Entertainment in the Student Union Memorial Center. [Read article]

Michael Moore recently announced that he is producing a sequel to Fahrenheit 9/11. Do you think that's a good idea and would you go see it?

"It's a good idea if he shows other views. If it's not biased and one-sided. For society in general, it's good to just have it out there."

"I think so. I'd go see it. I liked the first one."

"I think he's pissed enough people off already. He should just shut up. No." [Read article]

Not all students created equal

While I agree with Ryan Johnson's central thesis of his Wednesday column "Low economic groups should be focus of diversity," I'd like to present another interpretation of his correlations between IQ and economics.

I realize this is nigh doublespeak-y blasphemy in the United States, but maybe the reason that some families have higher incomes is simply because at least one of the parents are genetically predisposed to have higher IQs, and hence land better-paying jobs (not necessarily an indicator of social value). Such a trait is more likely to be seen in children with at least one parent expressing it than children with neither parent expressing the high IQ trait. [Read article]