Category: Opinion

Ryan Plourde / Staff Writer / The USD Vista There is no doubt that excessive use of either alcohol or marijuana can have negative effects on the human body. Heavy consumption of alcohol can lead to impaired judgment, slowed reactions, memory loss and after long-term abuse, liver disease. Excessive marijuana […]

Ryan Plourde / Staff Writer / The USD Vista “America’s Finest City” is the logo marked on every police car in San Diego, but apparently cop cars do not refer to sports. In a city with only two mainstream sports teams, the San Diego Chargers in football and the Padres […]

Serge Seplovich / Opinion Editor / The USD Vista A road trip is an ideal situation to sit back and think about vital issues in one’s life. This past weekend, I chose to spend most of the drive sitting in the car thinking about one of life’s most important questions: […]

Jesse Aizenstat / The USD Vista The War on Terror is over. Actually, it’s been over for about two years; it’s just that nobody in Washington has explicitly said it. This means that the Bush administration has shifted from its virtually all-encompassing definition of a terrorist and is now working […]

Kaitlin Perry / The USD Vista Freedom of choice is a right that all men and women have and it is a right that should be respected. Despite my personal views on the controversial procedure that is abortion, I firmly believe that all women have the right to choose whether […]

Cynthia Duncan / Staff Writer / The USD Vista The 2006 documentary “Jesus Camp” opened with the line, “There’s some new brand of religion out there.” At an evangelical Christian retreat in North Dakota led by pastor Becky Fischer, children as young as six were shown crying hysterically, screaming, speaking […]

Paul Garcia / Staff Writer / The USD Vista Youth are generally accused of being apathetic and therefore not politically viable. However, political apathy is not constrained to only one demographic. The Committee for the Study of the American Electorate reported that more than 122 million people voted in the […]

Paul Garcia / Staff Writer / The USD Vista Still in college, I already have friends and acquaintances whose records would stimulate trouble on the campaign trail. I could only imagine how much this phenomenon is increased when you are a 47 year-old senator with roots in the “boisterous and […]

Jesse Aizenstat / Staff Writer / The USD Vista As AK-47s thundered through the streets of the West Bank last summer, I realized that I simply could not be volunteering at a Palestinian elementary school any longer. I’ve always been troubled by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I thought my work in […]

Ryan Plourde / Staff Writer / The USD Vista It had been 41 years since the Oregon State football team had beaten a No. 1 ranked opponent. Most of the players on the current team were negative twenty years old the last time it happened. But on Sept. 25 the […]