Spontaneous solidarity prevails

February 16, 2011

It is wondrous and mysterious that Egyptians overturned over 30 years of oppressive rule in less than three weeks. It appears to be spontaneous solidarity, but we know that the frustration was decades-old and the new media helped to give voice -collective voice – to that frustration. Still it is nothing short of miraculous that Egyptians of [...]

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To Be Citizens, Not Subjects

February 3, 2011

Editor: Egyptians want tomorrow – a new day – and they want it now. They want to be citizens - in charge of their own destinies and the destiny of their nation. It was the American dream over 200 years ago – the reason for our deciding that we  needed our independence – that we were not willing [...]

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Recipe for Disaster

January 12, 2011

Editor: The Arizona debacle is a tragedy that touches all of us. A cross section of people engaged in a discussion of public affairs in a public space – the quintessential democratic experience - were shot down by a deranged young man whose anger was fueled by the hate-mongering rhetoric of the times, and who had easy access [...]

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Rich-Poor Gap Needs to Narrow

January 5, 2011

Editor: Edgar Gorke and I (Your Opinion, Dec. 29 and Dec. 19, respectively) are not the first and will not be the last to have opposing positions about our nation, its principles and the meaning of words. Progressive and perhaps even progress itself are negatives in his view; taxation is robbery and support for those in need is [...]

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Response’s to Sondra’s 12/19/10 Letter to the Editor

January 4, 2011

Find the original op-ed piece here. Free to succeed Editor: Sondra Myers states in her Dec. 19 letter: “Many of us abhor the continuation of tax relief to the very richest people in our nation and we are right to abhor it – it is unspeakably unfair if we truly believe in the promise of ‘liberty and [...]

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Pragmatist acts to avert disaster

December 19, 2010

Editor: Compromise is a highly charged word. Is it the essence of reason and the key to democracy – or is it a sellout of values – a capitulation? In fact we use the word both ways. The art of compromise – the willingness to forgo some of what you believe in for the good of [...]

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Misplaced Anger

October 29, 2010

We may have a right to be angry, but we also have a responsibility – to elect or re-elect people who have the wisdom and character to pull us out of the mess that we’re in. These are not happy times but it is our challenge as citizens to cope with them and resolve to [...]

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Holocaust Education Resource Center

October 20, 2010

I feel privileged to take part in this important program honoring the memory of the American soldiers who liberated some barely surviving victims of the Holocaust from the satanic clutches of the Nazis and their network of labor, concentration and death camps at the end of World War II. We call attention to this dramatic [...]

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Responses to Sondra: The Importance of Interdependence

October 9, 2010

Below are three reaction papers from students at The University of Scranton to a speech Sondra gave in the Communications Department. Reaction #1: Amanda Kerins Interdependence is a topic that has gained attention in both the media and the academic world over the past decade. After reading through several articles from the Interdependence Handbook and [...]

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Schemel Forum Luncheon Seminar Series: World Affairs Briefings

September 29, 2010

Sondra intrduces Mehdi Khalaji First, let me welcome old and new friends to the Schemel Forum’s first luncheon seminar of the semester and also remind you that our third annual University for a Day is coming up on Saturday. If you have not yet signed up, I heartily encourage you to do so today with [...]

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