Viewpoints
Viewpoint: Humanizing the inhumane
BY SAMIA AYYASH
If the purpose of the event was to humanize the IDF, that feat wasn’t accomplished. Rather, an entire population was dehumanized in order to justify crimes against an unarmed, civilian, indigenous population.
Viewpoint: Meet the real Detroit
BY PATRICK SIER
On March 23, be one of 1,400 Michigan students to work alongside so many proud Detroiters for the betterment of the city.
Viewpoint: The stories of science
BY BARRY BELMONT
The stories of science are the stories of humanity’s place in the universe. But this only matters insofar as we remember that it is human beings for which and about whom these stories are told.
Viewpoint: Putting Karachi in context
BY SHARIK BASHIR
Karachi and Pakistan may be facing a plethora of crises, but losing their cultural identity is not one of them.
Viewpoint: State of our universities
BY BARACK OBAMA
Colleges also need to do their part to lower costs. And we need to make sure they do because the taxpayers can’t keep subsidizing the rising costs of higher education.
Viewpoint: 50 shades of beige
BY OMAR MAHMOOD
Here, we celebrate diversity in good American spirit. Yet we don’t consider that the more we “celebrate” diversity, the more we lose it.
Viewpoint: (Don’t) do the Harlem Shake
BY PAUL SCHREIBER
What’s really disappointing to me is that members of the University of Michigan have — albeit unknowingly — openly and proudly insulted not just a dance, but also a vibrant, lively, diverse community.
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