Marquette Wire

Debate on life issues vexes students

Vinnie Bergl • November 4, 2003

First of all, absolute freedom for each and every individual in a society is a fundamental impossibility. It always has been and always will be. It is a fact of human nature that individuals have desires upon which they cannot freely act without impeding...

Party plagued by leadership lapses, bungling

Bob Mate • November 4, 2003

First, most Democrats believe only a heroic leader can save them — another FDR or JFK. But look at successful Republican leaders. Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was more like Henry VIII (see Gingrich's first divorce) than FDR. Former...

Complaints about MU compel chagrin

[email protected] • October 30, 2003

I am aware that I come off as angry, and the fact is I am. I am so sick and tired of people complaining about the administration or class size or the weather or that books are too expensive. No one forced you to come here; no one is forcing you to stay....

Pop ups proscribed by peachy programs

[email protected] • October 30, 2003

Liebsch is a second-year law student.

Student chastises

[email protected] • October 30, 2003

It is not the policy toward plagiarism or the result of such an offense that bothers me. Rather, I was very disturbed by the reaction of the student body toward the incident involving former Tribune associate sports editor Sarah Sherman. Before I say...

Trimble tramples peace

[email protected] • October 30, 2003

Trimble has turned the Irish peace process into a farce with his tactics of finding pretext upon pretext for not allowing the process to proceed. It is time that the British and Irish governments take measures to see to it that this wielder of...

Right retaliates against charges of two-facedness

Marianne Gosz • October 30, 2003

Terry Schiavo has been in a coma for 13 years. After several court battles, a judge granted her husband the right to remove her feeding tube so she could die a natural death. However, Schiavo's parents believed that she was somewhat responsive and pleaded...