The Dance Griffs continued their stellar season by winning the national championship in the U.S. Finals National Cheer and Dance Competition on April 1. The team received a bid to go to the competition after winning the overall grand champion title at the JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) competition on Feb.

Dear Editor: Mr. Coddington writes in last week’s Opinion Section that “I cannot tell you when exactly a collection of cells constitutes a human life and I cannot tell what is right or wrong because I, myself, do not know.” Even as late as 1969, Dr. Guttmacher of Planned Parenthood fame wrote in a revised edition of his book, “Birth Control and Love’”(Macmillian, Toronto, ON, page 12) the following words: “Fertilization, then, has taken place; a baby has been conceived.

In an attempt to galvanize the Generation Y voters who put him in the White House four years ago, the President is attacking Congressional Republicans on the false basis that they are constructing obstacles to an affordable college education. On July 1, a federal loan program that cuts interest rates in half on student loans for low and middle-income undergraduates is set to expire.

As many of you may have heard, this past Sunday was Earth Day. Everywhere you looked people could be found recycling, picking up trash, gardening, and choosing the stairs over the elevator to celebrate this lovely day.  However, I think it’s important to emphasize that we, as a global community, should be practicing these habits on a daily basis - not just once a yea Our planet is in rough shape.

As our country slowly approaches Election Day 2012, the incumbent President Obama is already in full-speed re-election mode, with no short supply of excuses for the decline in the American economy that occurred during his first term in office. However, there is one issue in which Obama appears to have dug himself a deep hole in terms of political support, his unwillingness to approve the Keystone Pipeline XL extension.

I was recently asked this question in an interview: “If there was one thing you could change about Canisius, what would it be and why?” I responded by saying that although I love Canisius with all my heart and soul, I wish there could be a greater awareness of social justice issues on campus.

    As the spring semester gets even closer to an end, there is already preparation on campus for next year.  One of the biggest plans is the changeover in the Undergraduate Student Association.  Each year at the end of April, students get a chance to have their voices heard by electing who they think will best represent the student body as a whole.

    To me, there are few things in this world that are boring and dull enough to be mind-numbing. Watching paint dry, being forced by my dad to watch golf on Sundays … those make the cut. But there is nothing like trying to figure out what’s going on in today’s economy.

Dear Editor, I was terribly disappointed to hear that the talk by Zach Wahls on your campus was cancelled this past Thursday. We had a great conversation here at Clarkson University on Wednesday when he came and talked about life with two moms. I wanted to let your students know a little of what they missed.

With the news of Rick Santorum’s departure from the race for the Republican presidential nomination, it now appears certain that Mitt Romney will be the man the GOP will run in the 2012 election. After endless debates, an extraordinary amount of speeches and a relentless smear campaign by the New York Times, Romney has finally proven himself to be a qualified candidate with solid Republican principles.

President Obama’s record in his four years in the White House is one that shows achievement in many important legislative areas. He has worked to keep the economy from collapse and made significant strides in social policy areas in a tense, partisan political climate.

The March 23 issue of The Griffin featured an article by opinion columnist Aidan Ryan about abortion, specifically in regards to a ‘Doonesbury’ cartoon. The cartoon was concerned with a Texas law requiring women seeking abortions to undergo a compulsory examination at least 24 hours prior to their procedure.