Merry Christmahanakwanzayule

State-owned 'holiday tree' not accurate or fair to other faiths

By Nathaniel Shuda

Starting somewhere between Thanksgiving and the first weekend of December, I can't help but start to think of Christmas. But in the last few years, I've been finding myself consciously making the decision to say "Happy holidays," especially if I wasn't 100 percent sure the person I was talking to was a Christian.

Shocking chase

Police, parents use poor judgment in young driver's car chase

By Spectator staff

Recently, police officers in Charlotte, N.C. felt the need to use a taser on a 10-year-old boy in a severe lapse of judgment.

Group's efforts not so 'Golden'

Boycott will have opposite of wanted affect

By Scott Hansen

"The Golden Compass," a New Line Cinema film starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, is set to be released in theaters nationwide tomorrow. And, not surprisingly, it is receiving a large amount of criticism and stirring a lot of debates.

Students can be bribed for votes

By Jake Johnson

On Nov. 15, New York University conducted a survey of its undergraduate population in regards to what they would need to be bribed with not to vote. Twenty percent of students said that they would give up their voting rights for an iPod, while 50 percent of the 3,000 students surveyed said that would never vote again for a cool $1 million.

Calendar makes a personal attack

Number of different ways to contribute to cancer research

By Ryan Dostalek

From the get-go, I was not a huge supporter of the calendars. I really became infuriated about the topic when the creators and their supporters started making gratuitous, inaccurate and disrespectful comments regarding their "work."