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...delta by successive Nigerian governments is criminal, but the truth is that many other parts of the country have also suffered that same fate. Outside of a few metropolitan cities like Lagos, Abuja and Kano, Nigeria is a vast expanse of criminal neglect. The problems of the Niger Delta cannot be solved in isolation but must be addressed with all the other troubles plaguing Nigeria. And resorting to violence will only create more problems and solve none. Emmanuel Majebi Lagos...
...quest for fame reaches an early, flickering peak when 50 freshmen of whom no one but a few old-school friends have ever heard vie for the votes of an apathetic class to make the Union or Jubilee committees. An astonishingly large percentage of each class cannot tell you who the current football captain is, and at least an equally large percentage do not know the difference between a Junior Fellow and a University Professor. It is easy for a student merely to let himself drift here because of one great distinction that separates the University from the average American...
...authors, HMS instructor Karen E. Lasser and assistant professors Stephanie J. Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein, concluded that Americans suffer more from chronic illnesses and obesity than Canadians, are less likely to have one regular doctor, and are almost twice as likely to forego medicine they need because they cannot afford it. The authors also found that Canadians saw smaller disparities in healthcare access between immigrants and nonimmigrants, rich and poor, and racial minorities and the majority. “In the United States cost was the principal barrier [to treatment], whereas in Canada waiting times were an issue...
Testing college students will not improve their education (particularly if they cannot afford to go to college in the first place), and it is far from clear, as the Commission later acknowledged, that any standardized tests could be developed to accurately reflect the diversity of higher education curricula. Moreover, setting up a national database to track student performance, in addition to throwing serious privacy concerns by the wayside, will divert federal funds from programs that would produce tangible benefits—not more bureaucracy. Should Bush’s vision prevail, he has left us with little confidence in what...
...said, according to the excerpt released by The Crimson in 1980.“You’re not just taking the smartest people,” he says now. “You’re looking at lots of things.” Klitgaard says he still cannot provide a definitive answer as to why minorities lag behind but that this may be a drawback of affirmative action.“If elite universities did not compete so heavily for blacks these students might attend slightly lesser institutions where they might compete as intellectual equals...