Recently, President Barack Obama has urged Congress to freeze current federally subsidized student loan interest rates at 3.4 percent.
The College Senate made recommendations to President Christopher Dahl on April 3 of this year about further changes to address current weaknesses in the college’s sexual assault policies. At The Lamron, we strongly encourage Dahl to initiate these policies as they would not only improve the safety of the student body in emergency situations, but would also advance Geneseo’s already honest attitude regarding sexual education.
On April 3, the Geneseo College Senate held a discussion to recommend to President Christopher Dahl that he not consider the data or comments of online Student Opinion of Faculty Instruction evaluations in the college’s assessment of instructors.
We at The Lamron strongly oppose this decision to allow strip-searches of people that are arrested for any offense.
An outpouring of tweets expressing indignation that several characters from The Hunger Games, especially 12-year-old tribute Rue, were cast as black actors in the film tarnished its record-breaking premiere.
On Saturday Feb. 25, republican presidential candidate and former Sen. Rick Santorum responded to remarks made by President Barack Obama that encouraged all Americans to attend at least one year of higher education. Santorum said, "President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college; what a snob."
On Feb. 16, a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing was held to address the Obama administration's new legislation on contraception and whether it infringes on freedom of religion or conscience. With a majority male panel and committee, the hearing failed to represent the female population affected by this particular health care and that will endure the consequences of any legislation.
On Sunday Feb. 12, journalist Liz Trotta was featured on Fox News' "America's News HQ" in a segment about new rules concerning women in the United States military. In less than four minutes, Trotta attacked feminists and government spending to protect our soldiers, in addition to implying that women in combat should expect to be sexually assaulted.
On Tuesday Jan. 24, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that he would take the question of same-sex marriage in his state to a public referendum rather than sign a bill if one were to be passed by the state legislature. Then on Tuesday Feb. 8, the Ninth United States Circuit Court of
When President Barack Obama took the podium to give his third State of the Union address on Tuesday Jan. 24, he demonstrated a rhetorical dexterity which cannot be anything but admired. Throughout his speech, Obama simultaneously and separately was talking directly to the American people watching at home and the members of Congress in the House chamber.
America is often confused by its own diversity and this becomes painfully clear during the month of December as Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa approach and people start panicking either because their holiday is being attacked, excluded or diluted.
On Friday Oct. 28 Rochester Police arrested 32 people at the Occupy Rochester protest in Washington Square Park during the movement's first attempted overnight protest in the city. Among the 32 who were all arrested on the grounds of trespassing on public property after hours was junior Jonathan Foster, a student photojournalist on assignment for the Rochester Institute of Technology's student publication, Reporter Magazine.
The effects of the recession are disheartening, to say the least. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate of young adults between ages 20 and 24 has increased from 9.1 percent to 14 percent in just 10 years, and the outlook for the next few years, as we are constantly told, is desolate.
Following the law does not absolve a person of ethical responsibilities to society.
Geneseo, an institution that prides itself on a strong liberal arts curriculum, promises to produce students who, regardless of major, are excellent writers.
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Currently, as a general education requirement, students must demonstrate proficiency of a foreign language.
The Stylus, the State University of New York at Brockport's student newspaper, is currently at odds with its funding body, the Brockport Student Government.
Quality education is a project. It requires a tremendous amount of effort from all those involved – students, administrators, staff and professors – in order to ensure that true learning is taking place. Unfortunately, there are some parties in the equation that do not consistently demonstrate an effort conducive to quality and deep learning; disturbingly, this includes professors and students, the most directly involved agents in the education project.
Republican state senator George Maziarz of Buffalo introduced a bill on Monday that would require anyone applying for welfare benefits in New York to submit to a drug test. Failure to pass the test would preclude residents from receiving financial assistance from the state.
The Undergraduate Student Association Elections Committee, a standing body of the Student Association, rises to the fore of discussion during times of election scandal.
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In a budget proposal announced on Feb. 1, Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised New Yorkers that he wouldn't raise State University of New York tuition – a pronouncement inspiring cheers from voters, but rendering disappointment for many students.
In the wake of the Tucson shootings, there were calls to ban firearms as well as responses from the National Rifle Association and other reactionary organizations saying that guns are not responsible for violent behavior and that solutions lie elsewhere.
On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama delivered the State of the Union address to Congress, detailing his strategy for moving forward in the face of the current financial crisis. One of the president's main points was the need to pursue green energy initiatives.
President Barack Obama's announcement Tuesday that he would agree to extend the Bush tax cuts for all Americans – including those filers reporting over $250,000 in annual income – is the latest depressing reminder that nationally, change has come not through a unified effort of leaders to develop a comprehensive path toward accomplishing our nation's goals, but through a scrambled and directionless patchwork of red and blue victories.
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