I am not a raving lunatic, a robber or a vandal. I am not a murderer or a bully. I can't even hurt a fly. I am a Whitman Student.   So, it's just ridiculous that Whitman students' ID cards do not give...

Class is about to start as a Whitman student walks in on the first day. The classroom looks new and fancy and when he sits down at his desk instead of finding some old wooden writing surface there...

The separation of church and state is a fundamental part of Western society. A third grader can tell you what that means in the United States. But not all third graders around the world are granted the...

Once every two years almost all of the nations of the world meet in a competition of strategy, skill and expertise in sports: this is a time-honored event that has been defiled by the web of international...

While on active duty in Iraq many soldiers have been given orders to attack "hot zones" and other areas where military insurgents lived. These places turned out to have only unarmed civilians including...

Some critics of the presidential election process in the United States claim the primaries are a fundamentally undemocratic process, but this view is wrong. The primaries are the most democratic part of...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has the strong dedication and experience to take the United States from being the laughingstock that it is today to a renewed position as the morally upright and powerful nation...

Soldiers die every day all around the world and with the war in Iraq more troops are dying all the time. This poses a problem for the military, which must find ways to keep their number high in order to...

In an unstable part of the world a military dictator has just stepped down to make way for an elected government. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has renounced his position as general of the military...