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Column: Facebook app makes sex even easier
Ever wonder if that "poke" you got from a friend on Facebook was really more of an invitation for sex rather than a friendly "hello"? Well, now you can get around the awkward wondering with a new app that notifies other friends if the two of you want to "bang.
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Column: U.S. should stop sending foreign aid to North Korea
Everybody’s favorite international non-conformist is at it again. Recently North Korea announced it is taking a more aggressive approach to foreign policy by continuing to test nuclear weapons and long range rockets as part of its action against “the sworn enemy of the Korean people.
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Column: Hagel’s stance on Israel clouds appointment of secretary of defense
Among the highly skeptical political appointments over the past month, Chuck Hagel’s appointment to the secretary of defense position has been the most controversial. Why is that? Hagel, a former republican U.S.
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Column: Ineffectual tugs at heartstrings
Last week, President Barack Obama unveiled a set of proposals to reduce gun violence after a series of deadly mass shootings.
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Column: Shame on you, Coca-Cola
America’s veins are filled with the carbonated, sugary sweetness of Coca-Cola. These soft drinks — the more than 650 products made by Coca-Cola — have become a part of the fabric of America. They are the drinks of our childhood, birthday parties, school lunches and sports games.
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Column: A case for concealed carry on campus
I understand some of my peers’ concerns regarding “guns on campus.” From my perspective, their opposition to concealed carry on campus is largely based on fear of further violence, a fear that has been largely misplaced but nonetheless capitalized on by gun control groups at the national level.
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Column: Justified civil disobedience
Over winter break, I was arrested with seven other students for staging a lock-in at the Westborough, Mass. office of the TransCanada Corporation in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Column: Boy Scouts to rethink LGBT policy thanks to grass roots movement
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which is the single largest contributor to the Boy Scouts of America, stated that if the Boy Scouts allowed homosexual members then the church would withdraw all financial support from the organization.
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Column: A call for ethical media
The tragedy of the Sandy Hook massacre not only opened American eyes to policy and social issues affecting our nation, but it also illuminated some of the shoddy inner workings of the mechanism that shared this information with us in the first place: the media.