Democrat Caucus Spread showed liberal media bias

In response to your spread “Grassroots Politics” (2/1/08), the lack of objectivity and balance in the center spread regarding the presidential election reveals bias and poor journalism standards, reflecting badly on our school and on the student newspaper. The article only contained scant mention of the Nebraska Republican primary on May 13 and included a […]

Fischer’s life not black and white

Robert James “Bobby” Fischer, the only American ever crowned as the World Champion of chess, died Jan. 17, 2008 at the age of 64 of kidney failure (coincidentally, there are 64 squares on a chessboard). Only one word can properly describe my feelings about his passing: ambivalent. After defeating Boris Spassky in the World Championship […]

Morality in war is questioned

As the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq approaches, perhaps a few more thoughts on the presence of ROTC on this Catholic, Jesuit campus might be appropriate. There is no evidence before 180 BCE of any Christian serving in the Roman Imperial army (due to aversion to bloodshed and emperor worship). But beginning with […]

CU College Republicans: Columnist wrongs ROTC

I cannot tell you how shocked and appalled I was to pick up the latest edition of The Creightonian, flip through its pages and find a certain article berating the virtues of this campus’s ROTC. At first, I felt transported to University of California, Berkeley, which recently shut down Marine recruitment within its city limits, […]

Does ROTC fall in line with Jesuit values?

The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at Creighton University is called the Blackwolves Battalion and is a compilation of students from Creighton and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The name “Blackwolves” comes from St. Ignatius of Loyola’s family coat of arms – the same Ignatius who laid his sword and armor in front of the […]

Abortion controversy justified

In last week’s “Guest Voice,” Mr. Svingen noted his concern that CSFL was comparing post-abortive women to Nazis. This concern derived from a table tent, sponsored by CSFL, which used the term “holocaust” to describe over 45 million babies lost to abortion. It is disappointing that in an academic setting one is so quick to […]