Lindsay Brown's Oct. 10 column "Bible clearly forbids homosexuality" makes some elementary errors that need to be pointed out. Brown's facility with biblical verses might be excellent, but most of his...

People are often resistant to improvements and change. It is much easier to defend the status quo than to take leadership and make a change. It is much easier to table a bill than it is to pass one. It...

Tuesday's U-Wire column "Homosexuals and the church: issue is about gender roles" by Ashon Crawley is miserably wrong. One can argue the legitimacy of the Christian religion, but to purport the Bible does...

Over the last two years, a deep sense of growing doom persisted when I listened to person after person discuss the rest of the world, the parts not including the United States. The sensation is like a...

The whirlwind California recall has come and gone, and now the national political community tries to pick up the pieces. We have time to move beyond the day-to-day debates concerning ex-Gov. Gray Davis,...

In California, the dust is still settling from the recall race. The election of Arnold Schwarzenegger brings no catharsis to the world's sixth-largest economy. While the recall was a fine display of media-manipulated...

Music can uplift, inform and convey emotions in a way nothing else can. On Friday, music will be used to do something else: Remember. The Daniel Pearl Foundation has declared Oct. 10 Music Day in honor...

After the riot last weekend in Mankato, Minn., and following riots here and at other Big Ten campuses and cities, it is nice to see one city do it right. The Cubs' victory against Atlanta on Sunday night...

Something is rotten in the state of pop culture. Look at the top of the Billboard pop charts where you will find such masterpieces as "Shake Ya Tailfeather," "Right Thur" and "Get Low." Insightful stuff,...

One year ago this Friday, the University controversially decided to invest in the Large Binocular Telescope project on Mount Graham in Arizona. The University's Faculty Senate will consider a resolution...