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Editorial: Grant the Pell preservation
House Republicans are proposing legislation in Congress that will aims to tighten eligibility on Pell Grant programs and would also eliminate 31 education programs, according to a report from the Chronicle of Higher Education. The bill, which was introduced by Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.
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Editorial: Monitor mark you make on Facebook
Facebook is undergoing some serious changes, and this has raised some concerns among privacy advocates. Facebook's planned redesign will change the way third-party applications work by integrating them directly into a person's profile page.
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Editorial: Wall Street protests demand attention
A group of protesters marches nonviolently down the street, watching as police officers arrest people from their ranks, seemingly randomly. A group of women standing on the street shouting slogans is rounded up into a mesh crowd-control net and sprayed in the face with pepper spray.
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Editorial: HPV vaccine is important for both sexes
It has been a controversial topic hanging over the 2012 Republican presidential debates this year, and a significant uproar has surrounded false claims about the human papilloma virus made by U.S. Representative and presidential hopeful, Michele Bachmann.
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Editorial: Wall Street protestors must unify leadership for success
An organization known as Occupy Wall Street has attracted a multitude of diverse individuals united by their frustrations and discontent with "corporatocracy." Since the protests began on Sept.
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Editorial: Rethinking capital punishment
When Troy Davis died at 11:08 p.m. on Wednesday night, he became the 34th American executed this year in the United States. Before the 15-minute process of his death by lethal injection began, Davis declared his innocence a final time.
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Editorial: Two-year colleges need investment
As the economy struggles to recover from this recession, one facet of higher education is beginning to suffer very badly: our community colleges. A new report from the Education Policy Center at U.
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Editorial: Study finds contractors waste government cash
Hiring private contractors to do work for the federal government costs more than having a federal employee do the same work, according to a new study by the Project on Government Oversight. In fact, on average, contractors charge the government twice as much as it pays federal workers.
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Editorial: Don’t drug test college freshmen
As Linn State Technical College in Missouri started a new semester, it instituted a new policy upon its students.