Turning to the opinion pages:
-In a Badger Herald column arguing that Muslim women should be allowed to wear the hijab, University of Wisconsin senior Danny Tenenbaum leads with a discussion of his right to speak:

I shouldn’t be writing this column. Look at my byline. Read my last name and note how it ends with a resounding “baum.” Or take a glance at my picture and note my misshapen nose. I’m a Jew through and through. And that’s not all: I’m a Jewish-American male studying at the University of Wisconsin. The closest I’ve been to the Middle East was a brief 48-hour jaunt through Slovenia, a wonderful little country sadly mired in existential crisis ever since Slovakia came and crashed the party.
Despite my complete social disconnect from issues pertaining to Islamic women’s headwear, I refuse to refrain from throwing in my two cents, which is a fairly accurate measure of the value of my opinion. The latest European trend, calling for dress codes that ban the hijab in various public venues, is a major fashion faux pas.

Tenebaum is pictured above for those who want to examine his nose. He says attacking the hijab “makes it a cause that invigorates religious extremism and gives power to those who rule through fear and hatred.”
-It’s “the worst debate on campus,” says University of Michigan student Christopher Zbrozek, who edits The Michigan Daily editorial page.

As an editor whose duties include choosing and editing viewpoints, I’m routinely told by both sides that I’m biased. It so happens that I don’t really have a favorite between the two sides. I have no religious or ethnic ties to either side of the conflict. I’m appalled at the oppression and violence Israel inflicts on innocent Palestinians, and I’m disgusted at terrorist attacks that kill innocent Israeli civilians. I would like to see people there stop killing each other, but just about everyone professes to believe that.
Nevertheless, it seems there are student leaders on both sides of the issue who are convinced that the Daily is out to advance one agenda and suppress the other. If I believed everything in my e-mail inbox, I’d come to the conclusion that I must be both a Zionist and an anti-Semite.

Zbrozek says he has found discussion on campus to be “useless”, because students on both sides “generally view their ideological counterparts with disdain, distrust and disgust.”
-University of New Mexico journalism student Steve Painter doesnt mind taking sides. He makes the case for Israel in The Daily Lobo:

If the constant persecution experienced by the Jewish faith or the holiness associated with Israel does not make you believe that the U.S. should continue to support Israel, then maybe the pictures of people celebrating the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, would change your mind. On the morning of Sept. 12, 2001, my hometown newspaper, the Las Cruces Sun-News, featured a picture of Palestinians celebrating the destruction of the Twin Towers. When I saw that picture, I knew from then on I would support Israel, because nobody should cheer for tragedies that occur in the U.S.
The Palestinian government may or may not support the U.S. in its quest to rid the world of terrorism, but the people make it clear they are not behind the U.S. Perhaps this makes sense because of U.S. support of Israel, but I doubt people’s minds would change if the U.S. suddenly discontinued its support. Besides, the U.S. needs Israel in its war on terrorism, and Israel needs the U.S. in its war for survival.