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T h e P u r d u e New Center For Students16 The Purdue Administraion is ReviewA JournAl of ConservAtive thought And opinion excited about a proposed Cen- ter for Student Excellence and Leadership. Is now the right volume 7, issue 6 | April 2010 time for it? Will it really im- prove student life on campus? got tea? Conservatism Complete tea student loan in A nutshell 3 party Coverage7 program 10 We conclude our semes- A discussion of women being The Obama administration thinks ter-long series on de- the majority in the Tea Party, that student loans are related to fining Conservatism. coverage of the Indianapo- health care. Why did Nancy Pe- What is it and what are lis Tea Party, and the future losi and the Democrats sneak in its defining principles? of the Tea Party movement. this takeover of the program? 2 April, 2010 The Purdue Review www.purduereview.com T h e P u r d u e Review letter from Jay Wood, Editor in Chief Scott Sowers, Publisher the editor Rohan Johnson . Managing Editor Aaron Anspaugh . .Features Editor Greetings, Chris Ellison . .State/Local Editor Jordan Hebbe . National Politics Editor Dave Siukola . Layout Editor Thank you for picking up the April Issue of The Purdue Review. This is our last issue of the Andrew Nguyen . Assistant Layout Editor semester and my last as Editor in Chief. It has been a tremendous honor to serve as Editor in Abigail Krueger . Campus Editor Chief this past year and I am confident that next year’s leadership will bring our publication Josh Teasdale . .Senior Staff Writer Emeritus to new heights. We have a very proud legacy of providing a distinct conservative voice to the Jennifer Haywood . Staff Writer Purdue campus and the Greater Lafayette community. Despite its physical appearance, The Morgan Ikerd . Staff Writer Purdue Review is not a “newspaper”, rather, it is our analysis of the news. Instead of talking Kristin Patras . Staff Writer about the when and where, our job is to cover the why and the how. John Westercamp . Staff Writer Matt Swiontek . Guest Writer Ashley Hobbs . Assistant Publisher Our publication has had a tremendous year. Since last August, we have published seven full- Dirk Schmidt . Assistant Publisher length issues – the most we have ever published in a single school year. Our staff has signifi- Stewart Simpson . .Graphic Artist cantly increased in size, as has our readership and visibility. Over the course of the academic Rebecca Dirkse . .Graphic Artist year, several members of our staff have had the pleasure of attending various conservative Sean Horoho . Copy Editor events across the country. Last fall, we hosted a weekly radio show on WCCR. This spring, we Anne Charlton . Copy Editor wrote a semester long series on Defining Conservatism. Next year promises to be even better! Michael Gardner . Copy Editor As I finish my term, I would like to leave you with a few thoughts. These next two years are an Board of Directors: Chair Nathan Arnold, enormous crossroads for our country. We have decisions to make about what future we want Chase Slaughter, Adam Rusch, Jeff Schultz, David Bridges, Jan Payne, Vicki Burch for this nation and what direction we want it to go. The far left has control of the executive and legislative branches right now, but that can very well change. Liberalism is only dominant in the United States if we allow it to be. It will take lots of hard work, but we can change the tide in Washington. Nothing is impossible with a little elbow grease. Our publication is standing up Join Us: The Purdue Review is looking for staff writers, columnists, pho- for conservative principles and making our voice heard. I strongly encourage you to join the tographers, section editors, copy editors, layout editors, full time media specialists, fight and make your voice heard as well. graphic designers, and web designers. 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Mail subscriptions are free and can Disclaimer: The views expressed within these pages are the views be ordered on our website or by contacting the Publisher. held expressly by each respective writer. The opinions of these writers do not neces- sarily reflect the opinions of any of the other writers in this publication nor by Purdue [email protected] University. This paper is not directly affiliated with Purdue University; however, the staff is comprised entirely of Purdue students. This paper is distributed by the University Con- The Purdue Review servative Action Network (U-CAN), a registered Student Organization. The first copy of PO Box 931 this issue is free, at distribution sites. For additional copies, contact the Publisher, Scott Lafayette, IN 47902 Sowers at [email protected] The Purdue Review April, 2010 3 Conservatism In A Nutshell Defense By JAY WOOD Following the election of Barack is something that the majority of Make no mistake. The United Obama and Democratic gains in the Americans inherently understands States MUST stand with her allies, House and Senate in 2008, many and agrees with. Rather, Conserva- especially Great Britain and Israel. political pundits proclaimed that tism has not really been explained As Conservatives, we believe in We cannot afford to be attacked, the Conservative era of governance at all for quite some time and, more a strong national defense. This in- but neither can we afford to watch was over. Americans, they claimed, importantly, has not been imple- Defendingvolves a handful our ofHomeland: things: our friends across the globe fall vic- had thoroughly rejected Conserva- mented or adhered to by those in tim to attack. We must not turn our tive ideas because those ideas had government who claim to be Con- backs on our TRUE friends in their been demonstrably disproven, for servative. When new members of the mili- times of need. With an increasingly they had led to the greatest eco- Our goal this semester has been tary are sworn in, they take an oath dangerous Iran, Russia, and North nomic downturn since the Great to explain the Conservative phi- to defend this country against all Korea, we can never let our guard Depression. The only problem with losophy in a way that many people enemies, foreign and domestic. It Recognizingdown. our Enemies: this analysis is that the ideas in have probably not heard since the is our duty, then, to make sure that question are not really Conserva- Reagan years. We have attempted our men and women in uniform tive ideas. to explain what we believe Conser- are supplied with whatever re- Russia and North Korea are very For many people, especially vatism really is and what the main sources they need to defend us. It potential threats. In a post-9/11 those in Generation Y, their main tenets of Conservatism are. Despite is also our duty to treat these peo- world, however, our number one experience with governance has the common perception, there is ple with the utmost honor and re- threat is radical Islamic jihad. Fight- been the government of the last de- more to Conservatism than lower- spect. As Conservatives, we do not ing Muslim combatants is nothing cade which, though primarily dom- ing taxes, repealing Roe v. Wade, take our freedom for granted, nor new for the United States. As early inated by Republicans, was not nec- and fighting wars in the Middle do we take for granted the brave as 1801, our country was fight- essarily Conservative, but a hybrid East. In fact, this is an extremely individuals who lay their lives on ing Barbary Pirates on the North of Conservative ideas (e.g., low tax- poor representation of Conserva- the line to protect our freedom. African coast. The Barbary pirates es) and Progressive ideas (e.g., gov- tism. As we learned from Pearl Har- were Muslims and they hated the ernment as the engine of economic In the previous two issues, we bor (and again from 9/11), our West. Conflict with various Islamic growth) which had disastrous ef- discussed the origin of human country is not invincible. We are jihadists escalated in the last quar- fects. Additionally, we have not rights, limited government, capital- strong, yes, but not invincible. That ter of the 20th century and then seen an overwhelmingly ism, individualism, welfare, being the case, we must go to great we suffered devastating attacks on popular Conserva- and the pragmatic nature lengths to ensure our personal September 11th. Our enemies did tive spokesper- of Conservatism. In this safety and the safety of our fellow not stop after 9/11 though. They son since Newt issue, we will be dis- countrymen. In some instances, it have continued to strike. Let us not Gingrich in the cussing defense, lib- is necessary to use aggressive force forget the Fort Hood shooting last early 1990’s.