Since the first distribution and commercialization of genetically engineered crops in the early nineties, countries around the world have been creating or have already created policies to enforce the regulation of these relatively new technologies. There are currently 64 countries all over the globe including China and Mexico that have laws mandating the labeling of genetically engineered foods. The U.S. is not one of these 64 countries. We are one of the only developed countries in the world that does not require the labeling of these potentially harmful foods by law. Russia, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Greenland and all of Europe already have firm laws in place that mandate the labeling of nearly all genetically engineered foods with a threshold of .9-1% of GE content per ingredient of each food item. Serbia, Benin and Zambia have put in place an official ban on all genetically engineered food cultivation and imports. Do we not have a right to at least know what is in our food?
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Syria: Should the U.S. Intervene?
Over the past two years, Syria has become a ground of world-wide political conflict. We are bombarded with images of extreme torture and suffering that has only worsened. The U.S. has been sending arms to the Free Syrian Army, but do we really know whose hands these weapons are ultimately falling into? Are we helping the situation, or are we aiding the perpetuation of chaos in the Middle East? The question has recently become: Should the U.S. government intervene on the civil war with military action?
Should I Go to Grad School?
As many of Parkside students are nearing graduation, some troubling questions are coming up: What now? Should I get a job? What kind of job? Should I go to graduate school? Where? For what degree? How do I get in?
Questioning yourself and your place in life after graduation is a natural, common feeling among many graduating students. So let’s talk grad school:
1) Grad school is expensive, at least twice the cost of Parkside tuition (if not more). Some students receive tuition waivers or grants for grad school (which I will discuss at a later point), but others simply must take out thousands upon thousands of dollars in student loans. That takes an incredibly long time to pay off. Not to mention, each application to grad school is at least $60. If you apply to ten schools, that’s $600. Do you have that kind of money available right now?
