Editorial

There’s a good chance that on-campus students discovered a small brochure promoting Student Senate’s upcoming residence hall elections that was slipped under their doors this past week. Dorm representation is a new change, as formerly, Student Senate elections only drew new members from the academic schools.

If you thought the battle for Internet freedom was won with the defeat of SOPA and PIPA, think again.

The proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, is quickly gaining attention around the Internet. Despite excuses of necessity for “homeland security purposes,” the bill poses the same threats SOPA and PIPA did to Internet privacy and freedom of speech.

H.R. 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, should have more support and more publicity. It’s currently the only decent solution to the looming student debt crisis, and with so many students deep in debt hampering the economy, we need this to be passed as soon as possible.

The circumstances surrounding the ongoing NCAA investigation and its associated possible football fundraising violations seem to revolve around an endless cycle of passing the buck, without any party takes responsibility—this must end.

While testifying before the Nebraska Legislature’s Education Committee in August, 2010, State Education Commissioner Roger Breed said there was no more fat in the state’s education budget, and that additional budget cuts would mean eliminating programs.

It’s an election year. Mitt Romney currently leads the field of Republican nominees. With the Florida primary over, he owns approximately 70 percent of the votes and is projected to carry all 50 of the state’s delegates in the Republican National Convention.

Perhaps last week you noticed that almost every website you visited was “blacked out.” This was because these websites were showing their dissent with the Stop Online Piracy Act, known as SOPA, and the PROTECT IP Act (Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act) also known as PIPA which were trying to be passed through Congress last week. Both are intended to curtail online piracy.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is an opportunity for Americans to reflect on and honor the life of perhaps the greatest civil rights leader in history. These days, most federal employees get the day off from work, while the private sector tends to remain in action.

With the new semester starting, sometimes one isn’t sure just what classes are to be taken, while others who already know a specific subject really well don’t understand why they must take a class for it again.