Archive | Editorials
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Editorial: Racist campaign ad is brazenly inappropriate
As they passed around potato chips during commercial breaks this Sunday, Michigan fans of the Superbowl were subjected to a brazenly ethnocentric and inappropriate campaign ad — an ad so inappropriate it makes MIA’s halftime finger slip look like the Sign of the Cross.
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Editorial: No winner in Missouri’s ‘Beauty Contest’
Tuesday's non-biding primary election has been referred to as a “beauty contest” throughout the country. Maybe it’s a beauty contest for the candidates, but for Missouri, it’s just a downright embarrassment.
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Editorial: A cure for what?
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation has contributed over $2 billion toward breast cancer research and awareness over the last 30 years. Some of this money has gone to Planned Parenthood, which provides reproductive health and breast cancer screening services to women all across the country.
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Editorial: More research, studies are needed for changes to diagnose individuals with autism
The criteria considered in diagnosing autism have been sifted through and remarkably refined since its first classification as a “schizophrenic reaction” in the first version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, released in 1952.
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Editorial: No signature required
Not with a ring but a pen, prospective college football players end their courtships with all schools but one today, signing letters of intent which bind them to a particular institution, in turn guaranteeing them one year’s worth of financial aid.
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Editorial: Spend more on childhood nutrition today, pay less later
There is no more primal instinct than the one that drives parents to care for their children. The extraordinary lengths parents will go when the well-being of their children is at risk can be awe-inspiring (and sometimes a little annoying).
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Editorial: Apple must be held to ethical standards
Since Apple products have become so integrated into our every day lives, the friendly, quotidian feeling of plugging in an iMac or fiddling with an iPad makes it difficult to imagine the ethically gruesome past that brought them to our fingertips.
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Editorial: Follow the money in higher education
Among President Obama’s numerous declarations during the State of the Union last week, one of the more noteworthy commitments he made was to increasing the affordability of higher education.
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Editorial: Click with caution
In our fast-paced society, it’s important to stop for a moment and take a look at what our multi-tasking habits may be doing to us. While the Internet has numerous benefits, it has also changed the way we as humans think and process information.