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Joel Ogle
The race begins for President
Let the good times begin. America’s race for the presidency has begun as President Obama announced his bid for re-election in 2012. The President will have the opportunity of running out ahead of many Republican hopefuls that have packed themselves together like wolves. The reason I bring up wolves is that Republicans may once again [...]
The Pennsylvania budget process
Higher Education in Pennsylvania is not being prosecuted or trampled upon by the Governor. Comments around Millersville and the rest of the Commonwealth have marketed the Governor as “draconian.” Is this how low people have to stoop in order to hope for a solution to their problem? The first problem with many of the arguments [...]
Where has all the good TV gone?
Slowly aging has given me the prospective that T.V. is not like wine, it does not get better with age. The tube today has more reality idiots than Michael Moore movies can cast. Television agenda has been adorned with trying to find the most outrageous while throwing out substance. It was not so long ago [...]
How Gov. Corbett’s budget plan impacts PASSHE
By Joel Ogle On March 8, Governor Tom Corbett introduced his first budget as governor of Pennsylvania. To the shock of many in higher education, the Governor’s budget cut funding to higher education by roughly 50 percent. The response from higher education in Pennsylvania has been dramatic. Petitions have sprouted up across the internet urging [...]
MU makes major changes
It is absolutely amazing to see how this university has changed in the time since I was a
freshman. This school was teetering on the threshold of old and outdated. Now, it is anything but that.
When I return from England after this semester I will come back to a Millersville
transformed. The new student center truly is “seizing the opportunity.”
Wake up, America
Americans have long been distraught about the growing bureaucracy in which Washington has embellished. With more veins sticking out of our nation’s capital than an elderly lady’s foot, we must take a moment and think is this what we want as Americans?
These ideas of power which have been concentrated in D.C. are not new. Presidents such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Jackson, Richard Nixon and others knew that the power to control laid in the hands of the executive which could only be done if the power ended its roads in Washington.
Let us not rush college, enjoy it
I always seem to hear talk around campus about how students are sick of college and ready to move on. The classes, professors, drama, and atmosphere seem to draw people to the conclusion that leaving college will offer the opportunity of so much more. But have we ever actually asked ourselves just how great we have it right now in school?
The erosion of states’ rights
The federal government has for decades slowly tightened their grip on the states. Whether it be through legislation arising in Congress, court cases paving the way through the judicial branch or the president exercising executive authority, Washington D.C. is now our heart and soul.
Americans must understand that in our history the federal government has not always been as expansive and encompassing on our lives such as it is today. The start of our country found men who felt as though the states were the entities closest to the lives of the citizens in the country. Much of this feeling came from the grip for which England had upon the Colonies. It has only been since the Great Depression and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal that the federal government has shaped our daily lives so significantly. Today, as has been the same for the past century, we find ourselves with the question of do we want to relinquish more power to the federal government.
Is this is “Change” we are truly after?
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once said, “if my fellow citizens want to go to hell, I will help them. It’s my job.”
In today’s world, with the recent signing of the Health Care Reform Bill by President Barack Hussein Obama Tuesday, “We the people” need to ask if we want to go to hell or have our elected officials drag us to hell?
Finally, Spring Break
No matter how taxing college seems to be on us every spring semester there is always one gleaming light of hope that sits in the middle of the calendar: Spring Break.
Especially as I begin to see the end of my undergraduate career coming to an end, I realize just how important the break is to our sanity and aspirations for the rest of the academic year.