With the revolutions occurring in Egypt and Tunisia, 2011 has already been known as a major year of revolution in the Middle East, and many journalists have taken to calling it the Arab Spring. The latest nation to look to overthrow an oppressive leader, Libya, has been controlled by Muammar al-Gaddafi for 42 years now.
With budget slashing everywhere, including SUNY, it's only a matter of time before union busting rears its ugly head here. Last week in Wisconsin, a political storm erupted over Governor Scott Walker's plans to charge state employee unions more for their pensions and health care and take away their collective bargaining rights.
Students at UB struggle financially at least as much as other citizens across the state. Many of us work during the semester not out of want, but out of necessity ? to pay for books, rent, food, tuition, and the like. In that way, The Spectrum's Tuesday, February 8, 2011 editorial struck a chord: sending more money to Albany is not the answer to the current SUNY issues.
Earlier this week, John Pieri, an Amherst man, became the first person in the history of New York State to be prosecuted as an accessory to a hit-and-run crash. In March of 2009, Pieri was in the car with his girlfriend, Andrea L.
On Friday, the House of Representatives passed a controversial bill, revoking all government funding from Planned Parenthood, America's largest abortion-providing organization. The bill sparked a great deal of outrage, and many saw it as an infringement on the ruling on Roe v.
Last Friday, CBS correspondent Lara Logan was brutally attacked in Cairo's Tahrir Square in Egypt, shortly following the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. When news of Logan's ordeal hit American shores earlier this week, there was an understandable bit of outrage.
On Tuesday, an Ecuadorian court ruled that Chevron Corp. should be made to pay $8.6 billion as restitution for pollution in the Amazon jungle. This is being considered one of the most important environmental rulings of all time, with only the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico having larger ramifications. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that the Ecuadorian government will see any of this money anytime soon. Chevron has not expressed any desire to pay this money, stating that it will fight the ruling both in the Ecuadorian appeals courts, as well as internationally.
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The hype's been about the recently resigned Lee, whose name we can now toss onto our growing heap of debauched, deranged or just generally embarrassing political figures.
When President Obama revealed his 2012 budget proposal on Monday, many people bristled at what was being suggested.
Whenever Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in the news, chances are it won't be for something good.
This school's smoke-free policies claim to be based on respect (Re: "Tobacco-Free Policies Based on Respect and a Balance of Rights", Wednesday). Our policies, however, lack much respect for reality.
The Spectrum recently published an editorial that reflected on the proposal, made by U.S. House Republicans, to eliminate many restrictions on greenhouse gases, prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gas emissions, and eliminate portions of the Clean Air Act. Republicans argue that such a bill would be greatly beneficial to businesses and corporations that lose money when they are forced to abide by the EPA's regulations. This newspaper has also printed editorials that have dealt with the Republicans' pledge to "repeal and replace" President Barack Obama's landmark health care law.
On Wednesday, Western New York was shocked to find out that Rep. Chris Lee, a Republican who represented New York's 26th district, had sent revealing pictures of himself to a woman that he met on the popular website Craigslist. Lee, who is 46 and married, described himself as 39 and divorced, while sending flirty messages to a potential female companion.
In July of 2009, three Americans were arrested after crossing into Iran through an unmarked border while traveling. After they were arrested, they were charged with espionage.
Governor Andrew Cuomo recently unveiled his budget proposal for the next year, and it contained some surprising news for SUNY students.
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