Morgan Ikerd

On March 30, 2010, the famous Reconciliation Bill was passed through Congress. Not only did it include the obvious revisions, or rather, the complete turnover of our former healthcare system, but it also included a student loan takeover proposal. This education loan proposal is something Democrats have been trying to push for a very long time and takes the 2,000 student lenders across the country that are making student loans, pulls them all in, and creates four federal loan centers. Read More »

Even with the war in Afghanistan, terrorist plots, a plummeting economy, and a multi-trillion dollar national deficit, we should be thankful that our First Lady still has sufficient time to construct a “cure” for our chunky American children. Truthfully, Mrs. Obama is right; nearly one-third of American children are overweight or obese, and that rate has tripled in adolescents and more than doubled in younger children since 1980. Read More »

There have been several rumors and much speculation about the stolen computer fiasco which happened while most of us were home on winter break. You may be wondering; how exactly did 60 computers, desktops at that, get stolen from a locked computer room in a locked building, without being detected? That seems like a very good question. Read More »

Along with many other Americans, I can’t help but wonder what happened to the 787 billion dollars that was supposedly pumped into the economy. I, for one, haven’t seen any of this money and it seems that the economy continues to regress and jobs continue to be lost. No one, least of all the American people—whose money it is that is being spent—seems to know what the heck is going on, or why our economy continues to descend into the pitfalls of recession with this so-called Recovery Bill. Read More »

While most may agree that a diverse collection of students makes for an interesting and unique learning environment for an academic institution, should students with a minority ethnicity really be given special privileges during the admissions process, based on their race alone? Or should hard work and merits be the only factor upon which students are judged? Read More »