Perspectives

BRITTANY YEAROUT Perspectives Editor With the attention given to depression in recent years, many people relegate it to being just another problem or statistic, making it as trivial as a weight loss gimmick. Although, recently, there has been more attention given to depression, it is still terribly misunderstood and underestimated. Media attention is not always good. Everyone … [Read more...] about Medication alleviates depression

MATTHEW PICCOLOStaff writer Many Americans celebrated Constitution Day by attending festive parades, holding scholarly conferences and teaching school lessons on the Constitution. This celebration is fitting given the document’s unique role as a standard of liberty worldwide. Still, many Americans take the Constitution for granted or are ignorant of its principles when, … [Read more...] about Americans must learn to cherish the Constitution

BRITTANY YEAROUTPerspectives Editor If you have not recently visited the Café, you probably haven’t had the chance to become the proud parent of a Marine. Last week, senior Haley Rice started Adopt a Marine, which gives a student, faculty, or staff member at Pepperdine the opportunity to write at least one letter a week to a Marine stationed in Iraq. Not a bad idea, considering … [Read more...] about Support the troops, Adopt a Marine

Taser this ... Colorado State University STAFF EDITORIAL When students at Colorado State University in Fort Collins opened the Sept. 24 issue of the Rocky Mountain Collegian, their student newspaper, an oversized and attention-grabbing headline shouted at them: “Taser this … F*** BUSH.” In the space where a 600-word editorial should be, this ambiguous (and asterisk-less) phrase … [Read more...] about LANDON PHILLIPS/Assistant Art Editor

ALEXIS SEBRINGPerspectives Assistant Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a man who denies the Holocaust and is arguably as evil as Hitler himself, spoke at Columbia University on Monday. His visit was much more than a speech from a controversial world leader, but an insult to everything this country stands for and upholds. Ahmadinejad is a dictator. He has been known to … [Read more...] about Dictator’s speech causes more harm than good