The Snapper

Each semester, many students get a pleasant surprise in class: teacher evaluations. All non-tenured professors must complete student evaluations, while tenured professors are only required to do so every five years.

We are told that these evaluations are very important, since it can make or break whether a professor is promoted or considered for tenure.

As Barack Obama addressed the nation after the announcement came that he would assume the position as the next President of the United States, I could not help but bear in mind the gauntlet which Obama eventually overcame. Due to the inconceivable incompetence of the Republican campaign, Obama was able to make history.

With the country’s fat asses in couches, eating Doritos and watching Celebrity Wrestling, the rest of the country was embracing the onslaught of slander from both sides like hungry pigs to a trough.

I’ll get right to the point. I, like many other students here, have a major problem with the way registration is run.

It makes sense of course that seniors get to pick classes first, being that they have the highest priority to finish up the classes they still need.

Every election, candidates on the right or left, discuss plans to make healthcare “better, more affordable and accessible,” yet today in America, 15 percent of our population has no health insurance, at a time when costs are rising.

Even with health insurance, they pick what gets covered, and what does not. Necessary treatments and medications may not be covered for reasons entirely their own.

Barack Obama’s election victory was a bittersweet pill for many people in this country.

All Americans can take pride in and celebrate the Obama presidency as a symbol of progress in the struggle for equality and civil rights.

I am a young woman in my senior year of college, who is proud to be African- American.

There have been many times in my life where people and the media tried to make me feel like I was less of a person because of the color of my skin.

An Independent writer and political activist states that any rational human being would not only protect a human child but also not disregard women’s rights to abort.

Pro-life: Any human being who supports enslavement of women towards their “unwanted” child.

Think before we vote; God’s impact on our lives

In today’s generation, it is hard not to avoid hearing someone talking about the famous iPhone.

The phone that can “do anything” like internet, a camera, and email.

There are a series of conversational topics that constantly seem to resurface when meeting new individuals or talking with old friends. Among that list is the discussion of origin.