By: Alexander T. Lopez Not since World War II has Europe stood so closely to the precipice of calamity as they do now. Excessive amounts of sovereign debt in Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain (the PIIGS) threaten to send the entire [1]Eurozone into an economic tailspin from which recovery would be highly unlikely. Past [...]
In Clear Violation? Issues Regarding the LGBTQ Center’s Efforts to Defeat the NC Marriage Amendment By Brandon Hartness In September of this year, the NC General Assembly passed a resolution allowing the public to vote on a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman. This measure has received harsh criticism [...]
By Aleigha Page Marriage is an institution under fire by many harsh critics in the country because it is deemed as antiquated, and legally unnecessary. However, I believe that marriage is the healthiest institution for society because it demands that people learn how to work with another person, and make commitments. Above anything, it [...]
Defending Greek Turf: The Real Story Behind Fraternities and Sororities By Matt Oakes “Fraternities, then, seem to have a decidedly negative influence on university life.” This is what Duke Cheston, recent UNC-Chapel Hill alumnus and former Carolina Review writer, had to say in his September article for the John William Pope Center, entitled “The [...]
The Natural Law of Sex: Dr. Budzieszewski’s Talk and What It Means for Our Campus By Chase McDonough A day before the annual “Orgasm? Yes, Please” campus event, Dr. J. Budzieszewski of the University Texas-Austin proposed a very different approach to sex. There is no doubt that today’s college culture continues to blindly support [...]
By Anthony Dent The Left is so enthralled with the Marxist notion of the clash between the interests of the bourgeois and of the proletariat that the lazy characterization of conservatives as “pro-business” approaches the obvious. But Democrats, in implementing the agenda of the Left, have to make the (perceived) Faustian bargain of working [...]
By Jared Simmons Pakistan plays a unique role in the United States’ foreign policy because of its importance in the current U.S. conflicts in the region and in light of the non-state militants inside its borders who pose a significant threat to Afghani and U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The Pakistani federal government has been [...]
By Chelsea Walker By uniting to override Governor Perdue’s unconscionable veto of the Woman’s Right to Know Act, the General Assembly led North Carolina to join the growing number of states promoting informed consent for women considering an abortion. Abortion advocates have already condemned the new legislation requiring a 24-hour consideration period, counseling on [...]
By Kelsey Rupp Per usual, President Obama needs to take “immediate and dramatic action,” according to one U.S. Senator, to save another dying government relic: the Postal Service. As an August 2011 federal audit and a September Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing revealed, the United States Postal Service (USPS) anticipates seeing [...]
By Peter McClelland Former UNC radiology professor, Dr. Etta Pisano, is the founder of a UNC start-up company called NextRay, which produces a new type of scanner that could effectively create an x-ray image while only exposing the patient to 1% of the radiation involved in current x-ray scans. Such scans would be extremely [...]
