Mass incarceration: this generation’s great moral failure
Modern society employs mass incarceration to mask the real problems of poverty, racial discrimination and mental illness.
Jeff Sessions’ decision to keep for-profit prisons is unethical
By keeping for-profit prisons, the attorney general is serving corporate interests.
The perils of a university-driven society
Each individual should exploit this life to the fullest and decide where their correct path lies, whether in a library, classroom or cockpit.
The internet can hurt those with mental illnesses — but we can use it to help them
Vigilance online and on social media can let us help people suffering from mental illnesses.
Our hopes for the new semester
OUR VIEW: A list of our expectations for the SGA, senate and administration this spring.
The UMD Co-op may be closing, but worker cooperatives have a future
Business doesn’t have to be exploitative. Worker cooperatives are an opportunity for change.
UMD should have mid-semester course evaluations
Course evaluations should happen earlier to benefit the students filling them out.
UMD SJP: Birthright trips are nothing more than propaganda
J Street shouldn’t promote a program that fails to represent Palestinian voices.
We have a responsibility to consume problematic media the right way
Views expressed in opinion columns are the author’s own. This is part three of my series discussing the consumption of problematic media. In part one,…
USM’s Board of Regents should be elected, not appointed
The Board of Regents must represent all stakeholders — not just the wealthy.