OUDaily.com | Matt Bruenig

COLUMN: Look outside the abortion, abolition bubble

May 6, 2011 | 9 comments

My brilliant colleague and friend Trevor Clark penned an article in Thursday’s issue of The Daily about the importance of getting outside of one’s ideological bubble. READ MORE

COLUMN: Campout outdoes Shack-a-Thon in offensiveness

April 21, 2011 | 15 comments

As most people are probably aware of by now, every fall semester we have one of the most offensive displays imaginable on campus: Shack-a-thon. During Shack-a-thon, a group of students builds cardboard shacks, and play homeless dress-up for the afternoon to raise money for Habitat for Humanity. READ MORE

COLUMN: Sexual-assault policy coverage misses credit

April 15, 2011 | 3 comments

Media coverage of the successful campaign to change the sexual-assault policy has so far been oversimplified. READ MORE

COLUMN: School reform ignores problems

April 14, 2011 | 7 comments

USA Today came out with an explosive investigation last week regarding testing fraud in the Washington D.C. school system. READ MORE

COLUMN: Sexual assault policy doesn't help victims

April 11, 2011 | 0 comments

OU President David Boren released a statement last week detailing his proposed changes to the sexual-assault policy. The only change the statement proposed was increasing the statute of limitations to pursue charges after first report from 30 days to 180 days. READ MORE

COLUMN: OU should not delay assault-policy changes

March 29, 2011 | 4 comments

Last Wednesday, undergraduate student Jordan Ward submitted a proposal to the administration outlining her ideas for revising the OU sexual assault policy. READ MORE

COLUMN: Rep. Stiles should realize he is in the wrong

March 21, 2011 | 60 comments

Heated exchanges have been flying between Oklahoma State Representative Aaron Stiles and sociology professor Susan Sharp after an incident occurred on March 3 in the Oklahoma Memorial Union. READ MORE

COLUMN: It's a waste to vote for UOSA

March 4, 2011 | 9 comments

Most students get it: UOSA, the nominal student government on campus, is something to avoid. READ MORE

COLUMN: Protests reveal true motives of police

March 2, 2011 | 8 comments

I arrived in Madison, Wisconsin Friday afternoon looking to spend the weekend occupying the capitol as part of the now two week battle to prevent the union-busting efforts of the Wisconsin state government. READ MORE

COLUMN: Obama's provisions could increase student debt

February 15, 2011 | 2 comments

President Barack Obama released his proposed budget for the upcoming year Monday. READ MORE

COLUMN: University excels at sidewalks, buildings

February 14, 2011 | 7 comments

In my two years writing for The Daily, a persistent criticism I have heard is that I am too critical. READ MORE

COLUMN: Teach for America simply ignores incredible failures

January 27, 2011 | 10 comments

I have written multiple times now attempting to expose Teach for America/Awhile for the failure that it is. It is possible to write at length on the failures of the program, but I will try to be short here and skim the surface of three serious problems. READ MORE

COLUMN: Congress’ budget solutions set to bankrupt our generation

January 18, 2011 | 1 comment

Despite the Republican pretensions that they are concerned about budget deficits, the new house rules established by the 112th Congress have predictably put us on track for high deficits once again. READ MORE

COLUMN: OU blocks any gender-blind efforts

December 7, 2010 | 2 comments

If you go to the first floor of the Bizzell Memorial Library, you will find a walkway exhibit that displays books selected by various members of the OU community. In that display, in addition to Bob Stoops selection of a children’s book, you will find President David Boren’s book selection. READ MORE

COLUMN: Working conditions at OU less than ideal

November 22, 2010 | 4 comments

This semester, I spent a significant amount of time trying to learn about the lives of workers at OU as a member of the student coalition behind the Living Wage for OU campaign. In my time working on the campaign, I have stumbled across issues workers here are put up against that have surprised me. I knew going in, just by looking at the OU budget, that the university is paying some of its employees wages below the federal poverty line, and well below the living wage line. READ MORE

COLUMN: Joe Lieberman Day questionable

November 8, 2010 | 3 comments

Prior to Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s visit to campus last week, the student government did something unusual even by its own standards. We have come to expect the student government to generally carry out the same actions every year: breaking their own bylaws and constitution, breaking state laws and inevitably botching their own elections. READ MORE

COLUMN: Wage gap real reason behind poverty, social issues in U.S.

October 18, 2010 | 0 comments

During President Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, he popularized the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid.” The point of this phrase was to emphasize that, all of the irrelevant, marginal issues aside, the performance of the economy is the central engine that drives everything else, especially politics. READ MORE

COLUMN: Shack-A-Thon is an embarrassment

October 6, 2010 | 49 comments

In addition to harassing students all day, participants degrade the poor by putting on what is basically a homeless theme party. They build crude shacks and play around in them all day because, as we all know, poor people live in shacks. They scribble messages on cardboard to solicit donations, parodying street beggars. READ MORE

COLUMN: U.S. Constitution was meant to oppress

September 15, 2010 | 8 comments

The Constitution defines what the Constitution says our rights are. This much is true. However, those who ascribe it some weight beyond that, especially those who believe it to be a philosophical prescription for what our rights ought to be, do so in error. READ MORE

COLUMN: Oklahoma should reconsider its priorities

August 31, 2010 | 7 comments

A state legislator once referred to higher education as the black hole of the state budget. Money goes into funding the University of Oklahoma and the other public universities, but nothing ever comes back. READ MORE

COLUMN: Wireless network sign up intrusive

August 26, 2010 | 2 comments

As students and faculty have no doubt noticed, logging into the campus wireless network is more obnoxious and intrusive now than it was last year. Now, not only do you have to sign in and identify that the computer belongs to you, but you must also complete a quiz about Internet piracy. What you may not know is the whole registration procedure does nothing to actually prevent piracy or make those who do pirate any more accountable. READ MORE

COLUMN: Glamming up the campus proves to be costly to students, taxpayers

August 19, 2010 | 0 comments

Universities across the country are spending too much money on non-academic expenditures. Instead of squeezing every penny into attracting high-quality faculty or improving laboratory and library facilities, universities are dedicating large portions of their budget toward amenities aimed at attracting students. READ MORE

COLUMN: America should stop dreaming and confront reality

May 5, 2010 | 8 comments

The Pew Research Center recently completed a study on the extent of economic mobility in the United States, and its findings were not very pleasant. READ MORE

COLUMN: Unspoken controversy surrounding Proposition 3

April 30, 2010 | 4 comments

This last bout of UOSA elections has been particularly exciting. READ MORE

COLUMN: Unpaid internships hurt poor and workers

April 26, 2010 | 4 comments

Internships are an important element of the college experience. READ MORE

COLUMN: Election fraud destroys UOSA legitimacy

April 12, 2010 | 17 comments

In what can only be described as a completely predictable failure, the UOSA election board falsely claimed that Ally Glavas and Zac McCullock won the election for UOSA president and vice president. READ MORE

COLUMN: Teach for America not as good an idea as some graduates believe

March 12, 2010 | 13 comments

Many students at OU might be considering whether or not they should apply for Teach for America. READ MORE

Point-Counterpoint: Secrecy erodes understanding

March 8, 2010 | 0 comments

With Leon Panetta, CIA Director, and former national security advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft coming to campus today, I thought it might be a relevant time to explain what the CIA really does. READ MORE

COLUMN: Match war with peace scholarships

February 25, 2010 | 10 comments

The University of Oklahoma has had an ROTC program since 1919. READ MORE

Point-Counterpoint: UOSA gets in the way

February 15, 2010 | 6 comments

The idea of a student government sounds good. Students are affected by the decisions made by this university and, as such, should have a voice in every decision that is made. READ MORE

COLUMN: Graduate students need to unionize

February 11, 2010 | 1 comment

I am not a graduate student so I cannot claim to fully understand graduate student concerns or what the best solutions for their issues would be. READ MORE

COLUMN: Oklahoma needs ballot access reform

February 4, 2010 | 1 comment

Oklahoma has the worst ballot-access laws in the nation. To run for president as a third party requires a candidate to collect signatures equal to 5 percent of the number of votes cast in the last presidential/gubernatorial election. READ MORE

COLUMN: Poor students should automatically be exempt from dorm requirements

January 27, 2010 | 4 comments

Oklahoma State Regent policy requires all single freshmen students under the age of 20 live in OU’s residence halls. READ MORE

Articles by Matt Bruenig