Archive | Opinion
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Editorial: Facebook v. Universities
A mortuary sciences student from U. Minnesota is in court for a Facebook post involving a photo of a cadaver and a joke about slitting her ex-fiancee’s throat. Creepy joke, or threatening violation of university policy? That’s exactly what the Minnesota Supreme Court has to decide.
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Editorial: One nation under drones?
Big Brother is getting even bigger. In fact, he may have up to 30,000 watchful eyes in the skies over the United States in the not-too-distant future.
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Column: Obama’s 2013 sacrificial lamb
In President Obama’s eyes, America will soon be a land flowing with milk and honey: a land where GDP will increase by 4.4 percent and unemployment will steadily drop to 7.5 percent, and where college graduates aren’t sleeping on parents’ sofas.
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Column: Together we must end dating violence
More than twenty years ago, I read a study of junior high school students in Rhode Island that included one finding I’ve never been able to get out of my head. Students were asked if a man who spent money on a woman during a date was entitled to force her into sexual activity.
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Column: U.S. Labor Department should update its standards to protect unpaid interns
As spring quarter approaches, many students will be scrambling to apply for those coveted intern positions that require them to work all summer – for no paycheck.
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Column: Russians don’t give up in their fight against the government
Russian winters have demolished a few threats to the government’s power throughout history — literally freezing Napoleon’s attempted 1812 invasion in its tracks as half a million troops succumbed to frostbite and hypothermia.
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Column: Apple-nomics
Following Apple’s announcement on Monday that it has begun an independent audit of working conditions at plants in China where the iPhone and iPad are built, the recent outcry over the business practices of the company with the largest market in the world is coming to a head.
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Column: Global warming and future conflict
Though the majority of the scientific community has reached a consensus that climate change is a real phenomenon and life-threatening problem, there are many ideas of what the "worst case" could look like.
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Editorial: Teacher tenure should be a privilege, not a right
Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy has finally decided to tackle the issue of teacher tenure that has been hanging over the state's head for quite some time. Since 2009, 31 states have reworked their teacher tenure policies including New York and Massachusetts. In his budget address on Feb.