Last week, yet another step toward the inevitable legalization of same-sex marriage took place in Washington, D.C. That is an odd masthead to an article discussing same-sex marriage from the “conservative” perspective. The posturing in recent days has been of either embitterment or sullenness. Facebook was practically awash with red equals signs; less present, but [...]
As of Monday, March 25, Tennessee State Representative Mark Pody has decided to drop a controversial bill relating to Vanderbilt University’s recently instituted nondiscrimination policy. The bill (HB 1150/SB 1241), which would have rendered Vanderbilt’s police force unable to legally make arrests or otherwise carry out its regular duties, is only the latest of several [...]
preme Court of the United States will have a number of choices in its decision on California’s hotly contested Proposition 8. The amendment, which was passed during the state elections of 2008 and added to the California Constitution, provides that “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” While [...]
Anchor link is certainly transforming the relationship between Vanderbilt University and student organizations. In case you haven’t been bombarded by information about Anchor Link or just did not care about what Anchor Link is, it is a student involvement website that allows students to become more involved with and manage their extracurricular activities. It is [...]
At the end of March, in what many considered to be a huge upset, the ticket of Isaac Escamilla and Lucie Calderon defeated that of John Tucker Sigalos and Jessica Brunelle in the VSG presidential election. Seen as the revolutionary ticket, one that could enact change in the inner workings of VSG and the perception [...]
“The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent is this: that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.” -Lysander Spooner The Obama administration’s drone war has come under recent attack and rightfully so. A recently released Justice Department memo reveals the justification used by [...]
The massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, permanently altered the dynamic of the gun control debate in America in a way that other recent mass shootings simply could not. No, it may not have had the shock factor that Aurora had, as Sandy Hook was not our first experience with a school [...]
On February 11th of this year, Pope Benedict XVI made an unprecedented announcement that rocked both the secular and the spiritual communities—that as of February 28, he would no longer hold the office of pope. Stepping down in the name of his health and advancing age—and, some say, due to the stress of several recent [...]
The tragedy which occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School will live in perpetual infamy, seared into the collective conscience of a nation. Yet as the initial shock of tragedy begins to fade ever so slightly, it is important to reflect back on the events of that fateful day. Could the massacre have been stopped? What [...]
In the aftermath of the horrific mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut that took the lives of twenty young children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary school on December 14th, 2012, there has been an overwhelming outpouring of sympathy, grief, and support from people all over the United States and the world. Along with this [...]
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