By: Andrew Jarnagin Question: On what issue (domestic or foreign) do you think a polarized Congress can actually agree? What policy progress do you think could be made on this issue? The United States has an incarceration problem. The federal prison population alone has grown by 790 percent in the past 30 years.[1] After the statistics are expanded to include [...]
By: Brian Underwood Question: Contemporary culture in America emphasizes being an individual as more important than being a citizen. Do you agree or disagree? It is paradoxical that the United States, a nation thought to pride itself on its fierce sense of individualism, should be considered a general opponent of the individual man. Certainly this is not to say that the [...]
By: Darrian Stacy Contributor: Andrew Roberts President Michael Adams has been President of the University of Georgia since 1997. Holding a Ph.D. from the Ohio State University as well as five honorary degrees, the president has accepted over 50 awards for higher education both personally and on behalf of the University. Under his leadership, the University has achieved its highest [...]
By: Nathan Williams In his first public appearance since announcing his retirement, U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, (R-Ga.), welcomed guests Monday to the University of Georgia chapel alongside Senator Mark Warner, (D-Va.), as they prepared to take the stage for the Terry Leadership Speaker Series to address national economic issues. Directly addressing the youth in attendance, Senator Chambliss encouraged students to [...]
By: Emily Kopp This Monday, two student editors of UGA’s newspaper, The Red and Black, conferred with members of the board of directors in a meeting to determine the future of one of the nation’s premier college newspapers and a longstanding campus institution. Editor in Chief Polina Marinova and Managing Editor Julia Carpenter leveraged their interviews Monday as a venue [...]
By: Cody Knapp Each year, the Student Government Association’s election week here at UGA rolls around, and I hear a collective groan. That week is here again; students who never knew they had an SGA representative, much less interacted with that same representative, are now being asked to cast votes for their next SGA executive and legislature. The phrase I [...]
By: Ryan Prior and Khalil Farah “You cannot become thorough Americans,” Theodore Roosevelt wrote, “if you think of yourselves in groups.” He, like most historians, subscribed to the influential view that American greatness derived from our unique ability to blend widely varying cultures into a coherent whole. This brilliant fusion of desires, talents, and perspectives forged what the French historian [...]
By: Robert Lee (As originally posted at Frum Forum, and part of a Symposium exploring the question “Is College Still Worth It?” Once, a great professor of mine, said, “College has nothing to do with what you learn here. You’ll forget most of it before you graduate anyways. You’re here to be inculcated with the norms and expectations of a professional lifestyle.” If [...]
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