I have published opinion pieces as a columnist with the Western Herald and the Sagebrush, the student newspapers of Western Michigan University and the University of Nevada, Reno respectively. All of my columns are included below along with published responses. I have also included a few letters I wrote to the Herald before I was on staff.

The following pages are under construction, so please excuse their appearance as well as punctuation errors.

Letters to the Editor, published in the Western Herald

Races see different solutions to issues (3/20/96) by Brett DeGroff


WSA failings due to poor leadership (3/14/00) by Brett DeGroff


DeGroff mistaken about new WSA (3/15/00) by Scott Rolando


WSA leaders care about doing job, by Michael Zehnpfennig


Sticker price freeze will not fix problem (3/22/00) by Brett DeGroff


Price freeze good for parking at WMU by Rob Engblom


Students want clear WSA platform, by A concerned Engl. 479 class

Columns Published in the Western Herald

Debate conduct causes core issues to be lost (1/12/01) by Brett DeGroff


Secondary education needs dramatic improvements (1/22/01) by Brett DeGroff
        Standards needed for future teachers(2/6/01) by Joyce L. DeRight
        Education program does its job well (2/6/01) by Amy Pelletier, on behalf of the Ed 300 class


Personal values enforced through executive orders (1/23/01) by Brett DeGroff


Societal growth hampered by affirmative action flaws (2/5/01) by Brett DeGroff
        Affirmative Action has been effective (2/12/01) by Matt Randal


Point-Counterpoint: Bush's executive order tramples separation of church and state (2/7/01) by Brett DeGroff
Point-Counterpoint: Social ills must be addressed; faith basis shouldn?t be a disqulifier (2/7/01) by Rick Reinstein


Tax cut irresponsible, drains federal surplus (2/15/01) by Brett DeGroff


Gen Ed requirements make better people (4/2/01) by Brett DeGroff


Excess commercialism taints pure capitalism (4/10/01) by Brett DeGroff

Columns Published in the UNR SageBrush

An answer to questions: Society (9/18/01) by Brett DeGroff


Education system falling apart (9/25/01) by Brett DeGroff

Affirmative action doesn't work (10/02/01) by Brett DeGroff

Television and the American public (10/16/01) by Brett DeGroff

Real changes won't happen overnight (10/23/01) by Brett DeGroff

Public debate should lead to results (10/30/01) by Brett DeGroff

Bush protecting his own by sealing papers (11/14/01) by Brett DeGroff

Every American responsible for war (11/20/01) by Brett DeGroff

Presidents order unconstitutional (11/27/01) by Brett DeGroff
        Wake up DeGroff (2/12/02) by Johnathan Sherwood

Lies are Bushs answer to Social Security (12/4/01) by Brett DeGroff

Capitalisms strong will survive (1/29/02) by Brett DeGroff

Bush trying to avoid abortion debate (2/12/02) by Brett DeGroff

Shays-Meehan enables speech (3/5/02) by Brett DeGroff
        Shays-Meehan limits speech (2/20/02) by Micheal Johnson

Partisan criticism of Daschle out of line (3/19/02) by Brett DeGroff