2008 Woodie Awards
Today the film "United 93" will be shown in theaters to a general audience for the first time. This movie depicts the story behind the only hijacked airplane on September 11 to fail to hit its intended target, Washington D.C. "United 93" has created nationwide controversy over whether such a form of entertainment should have been made portraying a 9/11 event and whether now is the right time to show it to the public.
The next time you are watching TV, turn it to either E!, VH1, or MTV. If TV's not really you're thing, take a look at an issue of Teen People or Seventeen the next time you are near a magazine rack. Either way, you will see what I am about to point out in this article.
It is not just a game; it is not simply a sport. For me, it could not be classified as an "extracurricular activity." Softball is a huge part of my life. Not to knock other sports, but not everyone can be a softball player. Not everyone can drill their brains so that seven different options for each pitch come to mind routinely in an instant.
I could scarcely believe my eyes as I read Gilad Skolnick's "Women have it so much easier than men" article. I sincerely hope that his article was writing in a sarcastic tone, because if he was serious, he is surely mistaken and inappropriately fresh about a subject that literally means life or death for many women in the world.
Every spring since I can remember, those little yellow flags commemorating the Holocaust have gone up on one of the lawns adjacent to the Campus Pond. And that poorly lettered sign has acknowledged the death toll among other oppressed groups. In a 1939 speech by Adolf Hitler to his military officers, in preparation for the invasion of Poland, Hitler asked, "Who remembers now the extermination of the Armenians?" In contemporary fashion, the speech was leaked to the public.