Opinions: Open our borders or our wallets?
MENC: You can't have a welfare state and open borders. It'll never work, ever.

And yet, entire political parties fight tooth and nail for health care, welfare, minimum wage, subsidized education, subsidized everything, and then demand that we keep the borders open.

This can't happen, and if you're fighting for both, then you need to pick just one. If you're pro-immigration, you need to choose now before we lock the borders up for good.

Opinions: Bus stop
When the words "free speech," "university" and "controversy" are put together, it always seems that the university is causing controversy by pushing the limits of free speech. This kind of thing seems to happen on a fairly consistent basis as schools try to live up to their billing as higher-education institutions, attempt to push society in new directions with innovative ideas and act as champions of the notion of free speech. And it should work no other way.

Opinions: Fighting global warming ... one old man at a time
LIVINGOOD: So, Ted Turner is officially crazy.

The founder of CNN, back on April 1 (which I seriously hope is not a coincidence), said that global warming and overpopulation will lead to an 8-degree increase in average global temperatures, which will mean that crops won't grow, and ocean life and cattle will die. Consequently, Turner says that most people will die, and those of us that survive will have to resort to cannibalism. Now, I'm no expert on global warming, but predictions like this seem just a tad extreme.

Opinions: Letters to the editor

Opinions: Welcoming the Pope
SHOPE: This is a huge week for America's 65 million Roman Catholics, myself included. Pope Benedict XVI will bring his message to the United States for the first time in his papacy in visits to New York City and Washington, D.C., after having visited the United States five times as then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.

Those of you reading this are most likely around the same age as I am and came of age under the papacy of John Paul II. For most of us Catholics at this university, he was the only Pope we had ever known until his death a few short years ago and until the elevation of Cardinal Ratzinger to pontiff. Perhaps that is why the trip is so important to us. It's an introduction into the soul of a man who many of us are still trying to understand.