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Column: Social networking is bringing us down
As college students, we all need technology to function, but some of us crave it. Whenever one of my professors doesn’t use Blackboard, students get annoyed because the system makes accessing study materials and grades much easier. Cellphones have gone far beyond making calls and texting.
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Editorial: Voter ID laws should not be used to restrict student votes
According to an analysis by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, about 60 percent of voting-eligible Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 actually voted in the 2008 elections.
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Column: The Olympic Paradox
A friend recently confessed that many of his most intense emotional experiences have occurred while watching football — the European kind, to be clear. I am not a sports fanatic by any standard, and I doubt sporting events could ever provoke within me a comparable degree of passion.
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Column: A depressing fallacy
In its decision in National Federation of Independent Businesses v. Sebelius, the Supreme Court ruled that the Commerce Clause does not give the federal government the power to force individuals to purchase health insurance.
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Column: Don’t come to college to get a degree — get an education
How do you get an English major off of your porch? Pay for the pizza. I see this idea constantly in articles, cartoons and blogs, and it drives me crazy: "A liberal arts degree is useless in this job market.
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Column: Blame yourself, not the Court
About a week ago, I overheard a rather distressing conversation between several students. One asked, “Do you think that Obamacare is unconstitutional?” to which another replied, “I don’t know, but I like it, so the Court should uphold it.
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Column: Banning profanity will not refine America
Last week, the small town of Middleborough, Mass., population 23,000, decided it was fed up with its darned kids and their darned swearing ways.
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Editorial: A momentous decision
The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on Thursday to uphold key provisions of the Affordable Care Act has sent shock waves through the public psyche.
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Editorial: Students can afford interest rate hike
Unfortunately, education is an interest group that, like every other interest group, protests wildly when its share of the public dole gets cut. Students are a part of that.
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