Budget cuts to impact University students financial aid, grants
Mariella Roque/ Staff Writer Now that the nationally discussed sequester is no longer an abstract idea, the parties affected have to deal with the fallout,…
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A second chance to make “change” real
Brian Anderson/Contributing Writer I was one of many Americans who was convinced that in 2008 the United States was being steered into an…
Obama’s announcement takes weight off of undocumented shoulders
Almost two years after the Congressional shut down of the DREAM Act, the Obama administration announced Friday that it will use its executive power to stop the deportation of young undocumented immigrants who meet the certain criteria.
BORDERLESS WITH BROOKLYN: NDAA attacks civil rights, disregards constitution
On December 31, 2011, as President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law, America experienced a collective deja vu; an overreaching, unconstitutional piece of legislation was being enacted a la Bush circa 2001. Our current President, whose ideology during election time seemed almost antithetical to that of former President George W. Bush’s, signed a law that not only has the potential to threaten constitutional rights, but actively disregards them entirely.