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Contemplating the future

by Leah Clark in OpEd

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For the first Fall '08 issue of the Laney Tower, I'm trying to think of what would be a good topic to write my first Editor-in-Chief column on. I've got nothing. I thought of talking about my summer, but that is in no way interesting. I thought about my new responsibility as the Editor-in-chief of the Tower, but then I thought, why would you, the reader, care about that? Thus, now getting me thinking, why would you the reader, care about anything I decide to write? Why are you reading this? I doubt that you know me, or that I know you; and if we do know one another, probably not very well.

Persecution in the past

by Qais Ahmadi in OpEd

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I was a victim of religious persecution on a sunny spring day at the College of Alameda. It happened as I was walking towards the campus library and saw two male students glancing at me in awe and speaking in a very low volume. As a beard-wearing practicing Muslim who has submitted peacefully in absolute worship of the Almighty Creator, I know they were slandering me because of my religion.

'So, what did you do?'

by Willie Bermudez in OpEd

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I find myself asking friends, classmates these days "so, what did you do during the summer, anything exciting?" and I find myself getting responses like "nothing, really" and I think to myself, why? Like, what makes us think that everyone should be out in an exotic location, visiting relatives, sunbathing, passed out in Cancun during the summer break? I think our culture expects us to take these exciting vacations, explore new lands, but whatever happened to the kind of vacations where you just sit on your ass all day and save-up energy for the new semester.

To Denmark and Beyond

Michael Parenti on Capitalism's Apocalypse, and Why George Bush Is A Success

by Alex Cruse in OpEd

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On August 23, Michael Parenti-noted liberal scholar, political scientist, and author-spoke before a small crowd at the Nonesuch Gallery about "Capitalism's Apocalypse"-a phrasing that even Parenti himself wasn't entirely confident of. Despite the heady doomsday title of the lecture, his succinct observations on a country in demise illustrated how capitalism has not only run up again its ecological limits, and it is completely antithetical to a true democracy.

Letters to the Editor

In the pocket of oil companies

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Editor-I was watching C-SPAN on T.V. and it had on for several days, the majority of the House Republicans, in the nation's capital, demanding that the House of Representatives come back from vacation and pass an energy bill that will not only allow offshore drilling, but also drill oil on the Arctic National Wildlife in Alaska.

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