Instead of increasing the profits of national chain retailers, you can help our economy a lot more by diverting even just a fraction of your spending toward local shops.

Many smokers might want to quit. However, many others have no desire to quit; I personally know such smokers. Thus, it's not fair to call a tax increase a "sin tax," or even a "stupid tax." An appropriate name could be "you are causing health care costs to increase, so you should be the one to pay for it-tax."

Alicia is using fear tactics, trying to frighten readers by portraying peaceful protesters as aggressors. Look at the language she uses to speak about pacifists such as myself: militant, bully, hatred, threat, terrorist tactics.

It would be a lifelong benefit for each student to enroll in a semester of learning about how to best handle personal finance and investments.

Most importantly, anti-smoking groups need to keep targeting the makers of cigarettes, who, despite an ever-increasing number of lawsuits, still make large sums of money off their extremely addictive product.

Animal research is vital for developing knowledge and understanding of these and thousands more debilitating, disfiguring and sometimes fatal diseases.

We invite you to come to the Thomas Building in Presidents' Circle to take a look at the model and renderings, enjoy the exhibits we have today and think about the future.

Instead of wasting time, energy and money inventing ideas indiscriminately, or at least haphazardly, ASUU should put more research into legitimate student needs.

Questioning the administration's efforts to promote good sportsmanship is uncalled for, and evidently, we can all use a lesson on staying classy.

I find it interesting that those who keep talking about the rights of a cluster of cells, I mean a fetus, are also those who oppose the rights of two individuals of the same gender to get married!