The federal government has found a new way to invade our privacy. As of January 2006, a new amendment quietly placed onto the Violence Against Women Act allows the government to collect DNA samples from anyone under arrest. Read more...

Bush budget doesn’t support students In Udeitha Srimushnam’s Feb. 6 article (“Bush proposes increase to Pell Grants”), the author failed to mention several federal grant programs that are being cut by President Bush’s budget. Read more...

Every time some new technology or idea is brought into the market that makes it less risky for people to have sex, there’s a popular retaliation that resurfaces. Read more...

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I recently returned from a tour of Europe. Along the way, I visited the Dachau concentration camp, which tearfully memorialized the suffering of concentration camp prisoners at the hands of the Nazi regime ““ with one notable exception. Read more...

Dancing not the only thing you should do I completely agree with Rashmi Joshi’s column “26 hours of dancing could be better spent,” (Feb. 2) questioning how dancing for 26 hours in Dance Marathon contributes to the fight against pediatric AIDS. Read more...

I am ashamed of you, Cartoon Network. First you hired two scuzzy-looking performance artists to post cute little Lite-Brite-like advertisements on conspicuous public structures in Boston, which caused widespread panic as public officials spent an entire day figuring out if the advertisements were actually bombs, costing the city tons of money. Read more...