Senior Andrew Clark, a Hatchet columnist, notes that the Republican Party is doing more to address the nation’s problems.

To all the incoming freshmen, transfer students and everyone else who has returned to the District after a long, hot summer: we could not have picked a more exciting time to come to Washington, where politics, culture and everything in between seem to collide.

Nearly two years ago, GW erupted into euphoria when President Barack Obama won his historic election. Change was in the air! A new era of Democratic and liberal dominance was supposedly upon us! But two years is a lifetime in politics, and now look where we are.