Students at the UA have been using the SafeRide service provided by ASUA since 1994, and it's been a prosperous venture that has helped many students. Although SafeRide is one awesome little advantage for UA students, there are many more features that can be altered or added that would make SafeRide a lot safer.

Numerous times have I heard from friends or fellow colleagues that they have almost been run over by SafeRide cars (which is rather ironic), been rejected for a pick up or that the drivers just aren't very pleasurable. [Read article]

Question: Yesterday was the Great American Smokeout, a day created by the American Cancer Society to encourage people to give up smoking. In addition to this, there are numerous anti-smoking campaigns warning smokers of the dangers of tobacco. How well do you think the efforts of anti-tobacco campaigns are working?

"No. I don't really think so. There's so many people that smoke anyways and they know that it's bad for them, but they don't do anything about it. They just keep smoking. People hear about it, but they don't really pay attention." [Read article]

Non-religious can also oppose abortion

In regards to Lauren Peckler's article Wednesday: I cannot allow Ms. Peckler to decide what the anti-abortion position is based on, as she obviously supports abortion rights.

She claims that the pro-life movement is all based on religion.

I happen to be religious, but even when I passed through genuine moments of agnosticism in my life, I opposed abortion, not because the baby "is a soul," but because it is a baby with 46 chromosomes, composite of its mother and father just as I am of mine. Biology teaches that embryo and fetus are merely the first phases of human development. I didn't learn that in Sunday school. [Read article]