To the Editor:

Looking back at the last week and a half, the Class of 2012 may have had the most boring introduction to college in the country.

Soo-Ryum Yang
The convention system is not necessarily obsolete, but hopelessly complicated and needlessly prolonged.

I'm a little disappointed because it's that time again. I'm not talking about the drunken wanderings of the freshmen class, or briefly recounting your summer experience about two hundred times, or even the search for the perfect dorm poster that sends the message: "I'm really cool, but I also like to express myself." No, I am speaking of the closing of the Olympics, or as I like to refer to it, "the greatest spectacle of athletic achievement across the globe."

Obama or McCain? This decision is taking a backseat to many in Nashville this election season, as residents of Davidson County will have the opportunity to vote on a referendum aiming to make English Nashville's official language.

Jean Rostand once said, "Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god." While I like to think of myself as being in the latter category, I can't quite claim to be an accessory to manslaughter. Sometimes I wonder if we all have this problem; that is to say standing out (not committing felonies). I mean with modern technology, killing has become a point/click kind of operation.

The start of a new school year presents an opportunity for new beginnings, and The Vanderbilt Hustler and InsideVandy.com do not escape that truism.

Without a doubt, the hard-fought race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton divided Democrats into two highly motivated camps passionate for their candidate and the causes their candidate supported. This week Democrats will convene in Denver to put their differences aside and nominate Obama as their presidential candidate.

To the editor:

Following Rick Warren's highly-touted Saddleback Forum, the question of the week sounds like a Victorian overture: Can Barack Obama fruitfully court the evangelical vote?