On Friday, hackers infiltrated the Climate Research Unit (CRU) and posted hundreds of documents and emails regarding CRU’s research, climate models, and publications…
Health Care and Young Adults
Many young people, such as college students, do not worry about the implications of health care…
What it Means to Waste Food
In Friday’s issue of the Brown and White, a letter from Jailin Lu was published. They contend that the so-called egregious waste of food…
Healthcare: What Do Women Want?
Upon reading this editorial in the Washington Examiner, I was genuinely surprised about recent polls released about women’s views on health care…
Tear Down This Argument
Token conservative columnist Ross Douthat has an interesting piece in today’s New York Times to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Sustainably Stupid
Lehigh’s Environmental movement has finally realized that organizations and committees are not enough to change the world….
Re-Evaluating Hazing
On Sunday, May 4th, 2003 a group of junior and senior girls gathered to participate in an unsanctioned school game of Powder Puff football…
Editorial Conversations: Lehigh’s Alcohol Policy
With that said, Lehigh’s goal should be to create a system where underage students can drink responsibly without fear of legal troubles. Certainly, Lehigh does need to react to and set consequences for drinking that is dangerous to the individual in question or others…
Fundamentally Flawed
My wife and I came to Lehigh University from Pakistan just a few months ago on a Rescue Fellowship, which was sponsored by the International Institute of Education (IIE)…
Leaning Greek
Let’s be honest: students in search of the quintessential Lehigh experience will go Greek. Those who move onto The Hill after freshman year will tell you they wouldn’t have done it any other way…
Taxes by the Tank
The Federal Government, under the guise of “energy freedom” has crafted a broad array of overbearing and Constitutionally invalid laws designed to increase fuel economy among cars on the road today and steer our country away from its fossil-fueled way of life…
Did You Start the Fire?
uthority must always be questioned. It is simply inherent to a modern democratic society. As college students, we can certainly appreciate this sentiment and should act on it…
Nuclear Disarmament
It would be great if we could have a world without nuclear weapons. This is a dream for many idealists, but a farfetched reality for most pragmatists…
The Competitive Disadvantage
s the Dow marked a psychological rebound at 10,000, few analysts were quick to verify this achievement. With an unemployment rate heading for 10% and no clear connection to revenue…
The Other Public Option
With sweeping health care legislation making its way through Congress, our leaders are overlooking one of the most pressing issues in the US: public education…
The Lighter Side: Artistically Endowed
Many believe that the role of art in society is to define the culture of a certain time and place. At Lehigh, such art is all around, whether you have noticed it or not…
Editorial Conversations: Lehigh’s Alcohol Policy
The drinking age debate is doomed. The most passionate advocates for reform have three years to make their case. Then one day, they miraculously stop caring, or worse, they join the opposition…
Editorial Conversations: Lehigh’s Alcohol Policy
Last year, President Gast voiced her concerns with signing the Amethyst Initiative, leaving the administration with fewer options involving cooperation with the Student Senate on the issue of underage alcohol consumption…
Editorial Conversations: Lehigh’s Alcohol Policy
From the vantage point of the Lehigh administration, minimization of risk and maximization of student experience should be the focus of any policy conversation…
Editorial Conversation: Lehigh’s Alcohol Policy
When discussing alcohol and kids, I think one really needs to evaluate the situation from two hypothetical angles: the real world, and the perfect world…
Editorial Conversations: Lehigh’s Alcohol Policy
For Lehigh, the difficulty in this situation lies with the fact that it has a fully-accredited police force, sworn in by the state of Pennsylvania…
Second Issue of The Patriot Available
The second issue this semester of the Lehigh Patriot is now available in print at the usual locations around Lehigh….
Scarcity’s Sway
Whether they want to admit it or not, the supporters of alternative energy rely on the threat of oil scarcity to sway people who really do not care if the Earth’s average temperature rises 1°F in 100 years…