Marlize Romburgh's Mustang Daily Portfolio

Marlize van Romburgh is the editor in chief of the Mustang Daily. She's a journalism and economics senior. Her passions continue to lie with hard news, and political and economic reporting, and she's pursuing an economics minor in the hopes of working for a business-oriented publication in the future.

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Articles by Marlize Romburgh:

Credit card reform bill makes college living harder
May 31, 2009 in Columns& Opinion

The recently-passed credit card reform bill is a supposed effort to protect us poor, naïve students from being exploited by the big, powerful credit card companies preying down on us — but honestly, this bill stinks of exactly the kind of paternalism most of us have outgrown by the time we’re in college.




Say ‘hasta la vista’ to ill-conceived special election propositions
May 17, 2009 in Columns& Opinion

Tomorrow’s special election and its six ballot measures have been put forth as a bi-partisan effort at fiscal responsibility – but fall completely flat. Yes, we need fiscal reform, but Propositions 1A-1E aren’t the way to do it.




Future entrepreneurs: take risks while you’re young
May 10, 2009 in Columns& Opinion

Not very many people have the smarts and the courage it takes to go their own way, to break out of the security of a stable career path and to venture out into the rocky, winding road of entrepreneurship, where both risks and rewards lie waiting around every bend.




Respect talent: don’t steal your entertainment
May 03, 2009 in Columns& Opinion

During the past decade, online piracy has become rampant and a blatant disregard for artistic copyright socially acceptable. Online piracy isn’t just theft, it’s theft of the very artistic talent we claim to value the most.




Women prefer men with something tender about them
Apr 27, 2009 in News

Wealth is a product of the values of creativity, resourcefulness, ambition, intelligence and responsibility. Although money itself has a dollar sign in front, it represents much deeper values that by themselves don’t.




Business as usual: All Wall Street’s a stage
Apr 19, 2009 in Columns

Despite the rhetoric, the Obama administration (and the Bush administration previously) seems to have little interest in encouraging a genuine understanding of the roots of the crisis. After all, a true explanation would take into account all the facts, not just those that are politically correct.



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