Randy Goldstein

Easing finals stress

The end of the semester can make life at Swarthmore seem pretty awful. Between writing last-minute papers and cramming for finals, Swatties are more stressed out for these two weeks than they are at a…

No deals for Hezbollah

Earlier this week, Prime Minster Ariel Sharon’s cabinet narrowly approved an agreement with Hezbollah to release hundreds of Arab prisoners in exchange for one kidnapped Israeli and the bodies of thre…

Protesters should work with the law

Diebold Election Systems may be poorly managed. Its programming practices may be sketchy and its security assurances may be lacking. Given the prevalence of Diebold products in elections across the co…

Palestinians ask Israel for peace, give only hatred

In the four months since the release of the Bush administration’s road map, the Palestinians have done nothing but reaffirm their hatred of Israel and their desire to exterminate its people. In these …

Anti-Zionists are anti-Semites

A number of anti-Israel chalkings appeared at Swarthmore recently, the most notable reading “Question Zionism.” Not surprisingly, several students witnessed the creation of these chalkings by a promin…

Free speech under fire at Pipes event

Freedom of speech is an integral part of America. The ability to challenge and criticize freely that with which one does not agree is perhaps our most fundamental value. There is a threshold, however,…

Realistic, relevant goals for Student Council victors

There is one trait common to most of the winners of this past Student Council election. Though some won by landslides and some barely surpassed the (still too large) margin of error, most neglected to…

Facing political reality

If you are an American citizen, George W. Bush is your president. It does not matter that you have been indoctrinated by the liberal bastion that is Swarthmore College. John Kerry lost and will likely…

Dissenters don't want equality, just respect

I write this week in response to Jeremy Cristol ’05’s roundabout assertion in his last column (“Politics isn’t identity,” Oct. 21, pg. 15) regarding Swarthmore’s support of “politics as a sacrosanct e…

Debate not SAC event

Last week’s debate was the first in a series of important events leading up to the presidential election. It was a critical exercise in democracy that deserved the attention of the citizens whose live…

No more margins of error in voting

Student Council is, in theory, a group that represents the needs, interests and concerns of the student body to the larger Swarthmore community. It is an entity whose influence has a direct and signif…

Campaigns need fewer stars, more substance

There is no question that politics, in its own way, has become a sort of show business. Anyone who paid attention to the recent Democratic and Republican National Conventions witnessed not an exercise…

Spain's weak will endangers us all

When the United States began the liberation of Iraq, it did not do so unilaterally. Rather, it stood at the helm of a coalition composed of several dozen nations from every continent on the globe. The…

Anti-business prejudices harm our future donors

Joseph Wharton founded the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Jerome Kohlberg ’46 helped champion the leveraged buy-out. Eugene Lang ’38 made his fortune by licensing intellectual property rights. These are…

Yassin a murderer, not a martyr

In 1987, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin founded Hamas. Since then, Hamas has killed and maimed thousands of Israeli civilians. It has consistently denied Israel’s right to exist and has unequivocally opposed any…

Room for improvement in Swat dining

Dining Services at Swarthmore is far superior to that of most other places. Having dined with friends at a number of schools, I continue to be impressed by the quality and variety of food offered each…

Iraq: separate sharia and state

Having liberated the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein, the United States now has the obligation of ensuring the creation of a solid foundation for sustainable Iraqi civil law. Mohsen Abdel-Hamid, the …

Bush should not legislate morality

The State of the Union address is always exciting. The gathering of the nation’s most powerful politicians to hear the president’s outlook for the upcoming year is an awe-inspiring, if sometimes tense…

Israel's human rights leadership still being ignored

When Reem Raiyshi set off a metal detector at a border control station while passing from Gaza City to Israel last week, she explained that her leg contained pieces of metal from a surgical procedure.