Archive for ‘November, 2006’

LETTER: Caucasian scholarship is ‘insensitive and ignorant’

n The “whites only” scholarship that the Boston University College Republicans are offering (“BU group offers white scholarship,” Nov. 21, p. 1) appears to be a misguided stunt. There is nothing wrong with being proud of your Caucasian heritage, but to label a scholarship as “white only” is insensitive and ignorant with the implication that comes with such a statement.

BUSCO: Erasing the divisiveness of race

The Boston University College Republicans have set up a $250 “Caucasian Achievement and Recognition” scholarship, which requires applicants to be at least 25 percent Caucasian and to write two essays, one about their ancestry and the other about what it means to be Caucasian American today.

RIPNICK: For this Barbie girl, the view is from outside the cardboard box

I have a confession to make. I love Barbies. I started collecting them when I was a child, and almost two decades later, I’m still a Barbie girl, through and through. Now, I don’t collect your run-of-the-mill $19.99 for a doll and accessory variety, mind you – although I do have a few of those lying around – but rather real Barbies, of the limited and collector’s edition persuasions.

EDITORIAL: A criminal collapse

When the Interstate 90 connector caved in this summer, so did Massachusetts’s chance of completing an innovative billion-dollar Big Dig highway system that would be the envy of the nation. And now, Attorney General Thomas Reilly wants someone to bear the brunt of responsibility for the crumbling project.

EDITORIAL: War of the words

The Bush administration has continually manipulated war lingo since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. What began as a “war on terror” has morphed into a “global struggle against the enemies of freedom.” And when debating if the administration retreated from the term “stay the course,” Americans began to wonder if the U.