Privilege shields the writer from the reality that not all campus areas are safe, even where diversity is supposedly valued. It engenders her to determine an area's safety, which cannot be her decision, unless she has encountered such threats to her identity.

I am imploring all of you to do two things: plan ahead and double-major, or at least minor in something. For some, such as those in the department of engineering, this is very difficult. Many majors limit the number of courses a student can take. However, it is not impossible.

If the U wants to prepare its graduates for the real world with functional knowledge, a financial literacy requirement is imperative.

In the final analysis, if left to their own devices, many people will naturally adopt the better parts of those other cultures they come in contact with. We should neither fear what recent immigrants have to show us nor worry that our culture is noncompetitive.

If a monetary donation is truly not an option, donate time. There are countless organizations in need of volunteers. Let's continue to open up our hearts and help those in need in any way we can8212;especially if it's inconvenient.

Although it might be, the propaganda of the past seems to still have mainstream America too dazed and confused to see the benefits of anything prefaced by the terrifying name cannabis.

The Safe Zone Program is truly about educating and including people, the department of LGBT Resources should consider renaming it because the name itself creates boundaries and segregation.

If Noel and his constituents are really concerned about fighting illegal immigration, they should be focusing on legislation that either facilitates legal, well-regulated immigration. or addresses the underlying economic causes that spur illegal immigration in the first place, not passing ineffective laws and threatening the budgets of law enforcement.

There will be winners and losers, but for now, America needs to go through this belt-tightening to purge through bad credit and bad decisions. The outcome will be a stronger America, one that will produce long-lasting sustainable economic value.

Sustainable living rejects in principle the instrumental view of nature and extends this golden rule to all living beings. Sustainable living is, therefore, living in community with all other people and all other beings, recognizing their equal and inalienable right to the earth's bounty.