2008 Woodie Awards
View this section's front page!Within the last two weeks, Congress voted to override President George W. Bush for the first time on a $23 billion water resources bill and a school shooting by an 18-year-old in Finland left nine people dead. Important news items? You bet. The chance the average college student noticed? Somewhere between slim and none.
A girl from Mascoutah, Ill., was given two days detention earlier this month for hugging two of her friends at her middle school. I am happy that I was able to graduate from the school system before these things started. If you think the Patriot Act has restricted your freedoms, you haven't talked to a person that is in the public school system.
I don't know if anybody's been watching or reading the news lately, but even if you haven't, most of us have noticed the lack of late-night programming. "The Colbert Report," "The Daily Show," "The Late Show with David Letterman," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno"…all of these shows have been reruns lately because of a writer's strike in Hollywood.
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