Here’s a look at the editorials of campus papers across the nation.
Murder in Genoa
Daily Texan
(University of Texas-Austin)
AUSTIN, Texas — Carlo Giuliani is hardly the first victim of globalization, far from the first casualty of the centralization of the world’s power in the hands of a few. Graveyards across the planet are full of people who have died in the name of democracy and culture — two concepts that are increasingly incompatible with the expansion of Western-led industrialism and finance.
Still, throwing the fire extinguisher at a vehicle that could have easily sped away should not be grounds for an instant execution. Although Giuliani chose not to join the other nonviolent protesters, he should be alive today, dealing with a police citation. Instead, Giuliani was murdered in the streets by Italian police so disgusted with his kind, and what they represent, that they chose to back their van over his already lifeless, crumpled corpse.
Crossing new frontiers
Daily Illini
(University of Illinois)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Rhode Island quietly added itself to the list of states protecting sexual identity as a civil right. There are now three states that extend civil rights protections to transsexuals and cross-dressers.
It’s a shame more states haven’t followed their lead. It’s even more of a shame we have to be making laws banning discrimination. By now it should be a given. Nobody should be discriminated against. Not women, not minorities, not gays, not white males. It’s no different with transsexuals and cross-dressers. They should not be kept from being hired because of their sexual identity, and they shouldn’t be fired because of it.
Eudora Welty: a true Mississippi treasure
Daily Mississippian
(University of Mississippi)
OXFORD, Miss. — Unfortunately, when it rains, it pours. In the last year, some of Mississippi’s national treasures passed into history. From Willie Morris in 2000 to last month’s passing of John Lee Hooker, we as natives have undergone great losses and face yet another.
The incomparable Eudora Welty’s passing Monday marks another great Mississippian lost to the world. While Welty lived out a full 92 years, it doesn’t make it any easier for literary critics, writers, professors and book lovers alike to take her passing.
Full of character and life and never without an intelligent and distinctly Welty comment, Eudora will not be missed as a Mississippian, but as a great author and personality nationwide. Much like Morris, Barry Hannah and William Faulkner, Welty’s work painted a landscape distinctly Mississippian but accessible to readers everywhere.
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