Shawn Augsburger

Indoctrination of Our Youth Can Prove to be Damaging

In the recent protest at the Bren Events Center in response to Arnold Schwarzenegger there was one thing that stood out in my mind:...

Hype Over Election Overdone

If you have watched any television in the last nine months you have probably seen a fair number of ads bashing Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger on various pr

We Should Be Wary of North Koreas Promises

Back in 1998, then-former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld led a commission that examined the threat potential of various 'rogue' states including

Kansas Debates Evolution

This month the Kansas State Board of Education decided to revisit the issue of teaching evolution in public schools. In 1999, Kansas removed reference

Beefing Up Border Patrol

At the beginning of April, a group of private citizens opposed to illegal immigration who called themselves the Minuteman Project

The Future of File-Sharing Debated

On March 29, 2005, the Supreme Court of the U.S. will hear the case of MGM V. Grokster and StreamCast Networks, the makers of the P2P applications Gro

Summers Entitled to Free Speech

In recent weeks, much has been said about the comments that Harvard president Lawrence Summers made at a conference on Jan. 14 about the possibility t

Proposition 62 is Not a Solution for Low Voter-Turnout

According to proponents of Proposition 62, this initiative would improve voter turnout and give voters more candidates from which to choose, but throu

Alternatives to Microsoft

While we constantly hear about the evils of textbook prices, there is one area where students and non-students are being price-gouged: software from Microsoft....

Was the Burning of the SAS Wall a Hate Crime?

This year sadly has been a bad year for free speech at UCI. We have seen multiple attempts to vandalize demonstrations of free speech on campus often

Don’t Waste Our Education

Conventional wisdom holds that the Democratic Party is the party of education, but some actions by democrats should put the accuracy of this stereotyp

Spring Election Failures

When all the votes were counted in the ASUCI's spring elections, a little over 3,700 students voted or approximately 19 percent voter turnout. While t

MoveOn from the Myths of the Masses

MoveOn.org has received plenty of attention for being an influential online grassroots political group, but MoveOn's popular image is largely hype.