Stories from the current online edition of Forum. en-us http://www.colgateforum.com Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:00:00 GMT http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/International/Historys.Outcasts-886185.shtml On November 3, Britain's Daily Mirror ran the headline, "How can 59,054,087 People be so DUMB?" For most of his presidency, Bush's critics on both sides of the Atlantic have joined hands to criticize him. International 3/11/05 Phil Alito '08 http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/International/ Other http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/Domestic/Ethanol.Government.Funded.Stupidity-886179.shtml For those of you that have never been to the Midwest, ethanol is a corn-based product refined and blended with petroleum as a fuel additive. As more than a few of you undoubtedly know, it also happens to be a very potent alcohol. While this later purpose may seem like a considerably more interesting topic than fuel additives, bear with me and I promise to let you in on the most patently absurd government program of our generation. Domestic 3/11/05 Ian Galloway '04 http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/Domestic/ Other http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/Domestic/The-Record.Industry.Goes.To.The.Mattresses-886181.shtml The recent rash of lawsuits directed at Colgate students regarding the illegal sharing of digital music files provides occasion to reflect on the moral and cultural significance of an act that most young people do not even consider a crime. Domestic 3/11/05 Jim Habig '06 http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/Domestic/ Other http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/Domestic/Bush-Part.Deux-886188.shtml For better or worse, George W. Bush will remain the captain at the helm for another 48 months. So what can we expect out of Term II? Some aspects may surprise you, while others seem like more of the same. So while the Democrats sulk about losing another election, Bush finds himself in an intriguingly curious position of power. Domestic 3/11/05 Carl Balouzian '07 http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/Domestic/ Other http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/Domestic/Democrats.Disarray-886190.shtml A logical examination of President Bush's first term provides little reasonable justification for his re-election. Anything that could have gone awry, did. Domestic 3/11/05 Adam Wolk '05 http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/Domestic/ Other http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/Colgate/Colgates.Lack.Of.Balance-886172.shtml Is the dialectic form of pedagogy dying at Colgate? In a more aggressive form, I see this as one of the messages of SA4C and an underlying issue in the debate over intellectual diversity. Colgate is in danger of yielding a hollow, one-sided education, which reeks of liberal indoctrination. Colgate 3/11/05 Drew Spievack '05 http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper764/thumbs/t_1f22t874.jpg http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/Colgate/ Other http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/Colgate/How-Colgate.Conservatives.Cheapen.Discourse-886177.shtml I'd like to issue a warning: polarizing red-state blue-state graphs that keep pounding our national political consciousness have now even permeated our notions of identity. Which is why, in the face of this, I hope Colgate will be able to hold in esteem the academic values of nuance and grey area. Colgate 3/11/05 Rob Dierenger '07 http://www.colgateforum.com/news/2005/03/11/Colgate/ Other