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Editorial: A step in the right direction
A conservative activist speaking at Brown in 2008 told The Herald, “There are only one or two conservatives on your entire faculty, which is a disgrace and it did not happen by accident.
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Editorial: Legislation would give necessary muscle to FDA
Last week, more than 500 million eggs were recalled from Iowa because of a severe scare that the eggs may have carried salmonella. As a result, an outbreak of more than 1,500 cases of salmonella poisoning has been reported.
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Editorial: MLK’s message must not become political leverage
This weekend, thousands of activists rallied on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for conservative show host Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” event. Beck’s rally happened to fall on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Editorial: Rent-a-Text option is one students ought to embrace
No longer is astronomical the modifier of choice for students when describing textbook prices, thanks to the Baylor Bookstore's new Rent-a-Text program.
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Editorial: Bookstores offer rentals, savings are marginal
With the recent upward trend of textbook rentals, bookstores may be left searching for a solution on how to achieve comparable profits to the buy-only business they once knew. Students, on the other hand, have less to worry about. Rental prices slashed dollars off textbook prices.
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Editorial: Lift ban on stem cell research
On Aug. 23, Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia blocked the executive order issued by President Barack Obama in 2009 to expand embryonic stem cell research. Ridiculous, right?
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Editorial: Ground Zero mosque strikes debate
Timothy McVeigh was a radical Christian terrorist. The masterminds of the 9/11 attacks were radical Muslim terrorists. No God-fearing American would ever question the presence of a building affiliated with Christianity within blocks of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
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Editorial: Now is the time for tolerance
Proposed plans of a mosque and community center two blocks away from Ground Zero are set to begin, despite an uproar of controversy. We believe this is a step in the right direction toward promoting separation of church and state, and combating religious intolerance.
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Editorial: Wikileaks must be accountable for results of leaks
We published an editorial on April 12, 2010 that asked if anonymity, epitomized by Wikileaks, was the future of journalism. We argued that the organization deserves “the respect of people everywhere who believe information should be free.