A successful democracy depends on an educated citizenry. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, "With freedom comes responsibility," and chief among voters' responsibilities is keeping themselves informed on the issues. Last week, the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the university performed a valuable public service by hosting the roundtable discus...

Being the committed resolution-keeper that I ... um ... aspire to be, I’ve been doing appropriate research and sampling of different diets before I begin any specific program on the way to my fabulously fit, bikini-clad summer of 2012. One doesn’t just want to jump into any old thing, does one? So, it should be pretty obvious to all that I know what I’m doing,...

Valentine’s Day has passed, but this is a love letter, and I don’t need Cupid ‘s help to send it. This letter isn’t to a person, but to a place — to a big building in fact, and an old one to boot. But buildings, however magnificent, seldom mean much without the people who inhabit them, and so this letter is to people … to the people who make up the heart and s...

In 2005, high school students were interviewed about their beliefs about drinking alcohol. In general, the students felt that there is nothing wrong with drinking. Here are some comments by teenage drinkers. "People are safe about it." "After sitting in school all week, and being told to study more, everybody wants to go out and drink." "There's not a lot par...

George Washington was a failure. But that is not the reason we do not celebrate his birthday (Feb. 22) anymore, unless you count Monday’s President’s Day. Washington’s failures are not the reason there are no more cherry pies or axes to help us remember the legends of his honesty and character. We just don't pay that much attention to him anymore in normal...