Joe Hager

12 Mar 2008

Economy hinders basic living

The economy is stupid. And I’m going to bitch about it until someone fixes it-someone who understands its crappy nature better than I.

28 Feb 2008

Student columnist designs new interrogation ideas

So it’s the year 2008, and one of the biggest stories in the news is the debate about whether water boarding—torture or not—should be used against certain prison inmates to extract information.

21 Feb 2008

Big men expected to step in, assist

Every so often a college student needs to return to his or her roots. I did this just the other day, by making a trip to the Wendy’s in Hudson. Now, contrary to what I’ve said about Taco Bell, I […]

14 Feb 2008

Season is evil in many ways

I don’t like you. I don’t like you one bit, Old Man Winter. You rolled into River Falls back in December, and it’s time you make like a tree and get the french toast out of my town. You wore […]

07 Feb 2008

Addiction: compulsive need for a habit forming substance

Now that winter break has come to a close and we are all readjusting to our normal lives of school, work and play, it becomes crucial to establish the kind of level-headed, even keel that leads to success and good […]

13 Dec 2007

Lack of religion is not animosity

To me, the two most forbidden conversation topics have always been the most interesting: politics and religion. Last week, I wrote about the politics of the 2008 Presidential Election. This week, I’ll take a FOX News worthy fair and balanced […]

06 Dec 2007

Ron Paul looks like the best candidate so far

As Joe Eggers declared in last week’s issue of the Voice, I have also been disappointed with the Democratic Congress since they took control last year. I don’t feel like a whole lot is getting done, and so I’ve been […]

29 Nov 2007

Text-messaging out of control; common courtesy disintegrated

To some extent, the following article is an open letter to the victims of a dangerous addiction poisoning my generation: text messaging.

15 Nov 2007

Laziness: Not so close to godliness

In recent months, I have become lazier and lazier in lots of things I do. It’s an interesting experience to analyze, because becoming lazy has saved me dozens of minutes of labor in the last year. Perhaps laziness isn’t the […]

08 Nov 2007

Personal rights education goes too far

So last week, FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, issued a press release regarding a situation involving the University of Delaware. According to the release, the university recently implemented a new program of “intensive reeducation” for its Resident […]