Unfortunately for the world, bias really is prevalent in all aspects of life. People have opinions about things, meaning they are biased against the other points of view. In politics, if people do not support a particular national political party, Democrat, Republican or otherwise, then technically they are bias against those parties they do not support.…
I know there are plenty of people who are pulling their hair out because of school related stress. My roommate and I make two of them. After a while, the stress turned into depression. And now, I cannot count how many days we have spent lying in our beds staring intently at our 13-inch television letting everything that comes on VH1 insert itself into our retinas.…
I have to say that at this point in time, I feel lucky. I have had some pretty great professors, many of whom outweigh the one I haven't cared for so much. But I guess Slippery Rock University, like any other university, has a wide variety of professors, and sometimes students just strike some bad luck and end up with a professor who seems to ruin their lives.…
In all of my time here at Slippery Rock, the parking situation on campus is one that has always spurred public debate. Mostly, students like to complain about the apparent lack of parking. In fact, the issue even came up in this year's Student Government Association elections.…
It's starting to look like spring outside, and many more people are out and about on the Slippery Rock campus. However, with so many more people outside and with the construction continuing to go on, we need to start to work on maintaining the environmental aspects of SRU.…
I once heard a speaker propose to his audience that there has to be more to life than going to college, having a family, working to support family, sending kids to college and then dying. Based on this statement, I want to challenge you to think on a simple question.…
(U-WIRE) ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Many of us are familiar with the prototypical overscheduled child, that mainstay of suburban satire who started cello lessons before she learned how to crawl, took her first PSAT prep class when she was 12 and spent last summer leading a starving-child rescue team in Mali.…
(U-WIRE) PITTSBURGH -- The United States' government is awesome. Now, I may not agree with some of its policies, techniques or people in charge, but as of this week I have no beef with D.C. That's because they've finally done something really cool: They made Elvis Presley's house a historical landmark.…
March 31, 2006 Contact: Greg Reedy, Editor-in-Chief: (724) 738-4438; rocket.letters@sru.edu Frank Skrip, News Editor: (724) 738-4092 Response to recent editorial cartoon Slippery Rock, Pa. - Slippery Rock University's student newspaper, The Rocket, recently published an editorial cartoon parodying reverse racism and the issue of gender/race bias in regards to the hiring process at SRU.…
