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Page 4A OPINION East Oregonian Wednesday, January 21, 2015 OTHER VIEWS Founded October 16, 1875 KATHRYN B. BROWN DANIEL WATTENBURGER JENNINE PERKINSON TIM TRAINOR Publisher Advertising Director Managing Editor A Support our students ll college commencements are happy, but community college commencements are the Opinion Page Editor OTHER VIEWS costs, and, once they do that, they’re much more likely to lose touch with is read, big cheering sections erupt You’d subsidize guidance David Brooks Comment graduates often know exactly where they’re going to work; they walk with an extra sense of security as they head off These bright days serve as evidence that America can live up to its dream of social mobility, that there is hope at a time when the So when President Barack Obama unveils his community college plan in the State of the Union address Tuesday night, it represents an opportunity — an opportunity to create days Many students don’t have intimate relationships with anyone who can guide them through the maze of registration, who might help bond courses are supposed to bring them up to speed, but it’s not clear they work, so some states are dropping remediation, which could college students nationwide have dependent Obama’s headline idea is to make years of tuition costs to zero for students with decent grades and who graduate Obama’s address: State of the Union The evidence from a similar program in Tennessee suggests that the simple free label has an important psychological Editor’s Note: These are excerpts from President Obama’s State of the Union speech, delivered Tuesday night from the Capitol in Washington D.C. The problem is that getting students to enroll ——— I believe in a smarter kind of terror touching our shores; that unfolded we combine military power with strong diplomacy; when we leverage our power with coalition building; when we don’t let our fears blind us to the opportunities long and costly wars; that saw a vicious recession spread across our nation and exactly what we’re doing right now – and around the globe, it is making a ——— At this moment — with a growing industry, and booming energy production — we have risen from recession freer to write our own future than any other nation to us to choose who we want to be over the ——— In Iraq and Syria, American leadership – including our military Instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy We have risen from the recession freer to write our own future than any other nation on Earth. Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and chances for everyone who makes the effort? ——— will continue to work, as long as politics ——— In fact, at every moment of economic change throughout our history, this country has taken bold action to adapt to new circumstances, and to make up worker protections, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid to protect We gave our citizens schools and colleges, infrastructure and the internet – tools they needed to go as far as their is — the idea that this country does best when everyone gets their fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and We’re also supporting a moderate opposition in Syria that can help us in this effort, and assisting people everywhere who stand up to the bankrupt ideology of violent In an opinion by Art Way of the Drug Policy Alliance (A5, Jan. 17) he indicated that since Colorado has legalized marijuana, marijuana possession charges and arrests are down, more than $40 million have been raised by taxing marijuana, there is a slight decline in youth use rates, unemployment rates is at its lowest, and In short, you wouldn’t write government checks structures around the the lived environment of actual students and create relationships and cushions We’ve had two generations of human capital was designed to give people access to schools college dropout rates now hover somewhere Spending $60 billion over 10 years to make community college free will do little to reduce students who qualify for Pell grants and other students had their tuition covered entirely by grant aid, and an additional 33 percent had The Obama plan would largely be a class students who are now paying tuition and The smart thing to do would be to scrap community college free now have tragically then be spent on things that are mentioned in Obama’s proposal — but not prioritized or liberal orthodoxy that poor people just need more money, that the government could write people not just enroll but to complete more sophisticated understanding of how people actually live, on the importance of emphasizes noncognitive skills — motivation, grit and attachment — and how to use policy The tuition piece of the Obama proposal proposal, scrap it and rededicate the money toward programs that will actually boost completion, that will surround colleges, students and their families with supporting that will lure students into colleges only to David Brooks became a New York Times Op-Ed columnist in September 2003. OTHER VIEWS tonight, I call on this Congress to show the world that we are united in this mission by passing a resolution to authorize the use of force ——— No foreign nation, no hacker, should be able to shut down our networks, steal our trade secrets, or invade the privacy of American families, especially government integrates intelligence to combat cyber threats, just as we have legislation we need to better meet the identity theft, and protect our children’s If we don’t act, we’ll leave our we do, we can continue to protect the technologies that have unleashed untold opportunities for people around the YOUR VIEWS Colorado isn’t better off with legalized marijuana surged when high school students learned that they could go to community Getting students to enroll is neither hard nor important. The important task is to help students graduate. Many students drop out because something happens at home and there’s no one L A detainee’s diary ast week, several Republican senators, including John McCain, called on President Barack Obama to stop releasing detainees from the prison at Guantánamo Bay, the terror attacks in Paris, the 122 prisoners still in Guantnámo should be made to stay right where they are, sections of the book that describe his Chained to the ground, he was forced Joe Nocera On Tuesday, one of those detainees, Comment Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who was sent It is hard to read about his torture to Guantánamo in 2002 and remains there to this day, is poised to offer a powerful Does Slahi crack? Of course: To get the years during which he was isolated, tortured, and it took years of litigation and negotiation by Slahi’s pro bono lawyers to force the extraordinary document — “A vision of hell, In 2013 Clackamas County Mental health services in Oregon revealed that of the 242 kids 18 and under who As a native of Oregon and someone who has been the victim of the crimes committed by pot dealers, Way’s notations are about as ridiculous as his comment that, “Colorado is being real and facing the fact marijuana is here to Sometimes during interrogations, female interrogators rubbed their Carré aptly describes it in a back cover blurb in several languages — he learned English while in Guantánamo — and lived in Canada member, who had been based in Montreal — where Slahi had also lived — was arrested and charged with plotting to bomb the Los interrogators what he thought they wanted to hear, just as torture victims have done since “In order to stop torture, the detainee has to please his assailant, even with untruthful, and who was tortured in Vietnam, knows this; last month, he made a powerful speech in which he condemned America’s use of torture, saying, “the use of torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies, our belief that all people, even captured is also why it is so disheartening that McCain has allied himself with those who want to keep In 2010, a federal district judge ruled in favor of Slahi’s habeas corpus petition because government appealed, and the order remains was questioned about this plot several times, I asked Nancy Hollander, one of Slahi’s Forbes noted that legit sales in Colorado are slower than expected and taxes are lower than predicted as many What was he accused of? Slahi asked this question of his captors often and was never “I have only written what I experienced, what Second, the Colorado Rocky Mountain HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Advocates try to convince the public that by legalizing pot it will get rid of of the problem with Guantánamo, a prison where being formally charged with a crime indicates: interdiction seizures of marijuana tell the truth — that he had no involvement in any acts of terrorism — only angered his Will Oregon look like Colorado after legalizing marijuana? Of course it will, because the truth is that increasing the availability of marijuana, and increased use, will result in arrests for crimes related to that use, such as impaired driving, crimes committed under the dog, smells like a dog, barks like a dog, must But the quote that sticks with me most is something that one of his guards told him, was the best his captors could do to explain for Guantánamo itself: “I know I can go to hell Way’s notations are high in hyperbole and low in being a trustworthy source for of how marijuana is really impacting First, marijuana remains illegal under testing positive for marijuana have increased 100 percent from 2007 to growing more than permitted by law and selling their excess to the under 21 and and expulsions increased 32 percent public health approach to minimize the Shirley George Welches, Ore. that had been signed off by the secretary of wonders of the book is that he does come Joe Nocera is an Op-Ed columnist. Before joining The Opinion Pages in April 2011, he wrote the Talking Business column for The New York Times each Saturday and was a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine.
