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Insulting advice
Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich needs no introduction, being one of the most scandalized Republican runners. However, he apparently needs a lesson about college. “Students take fewer classes per semester. They take more years to get...
Making an example of MegaUpload
The Stop Online Piracy Act may have been defeated last week, but the legal war over control of digital copyrighted content and internet distribution rages on. MegaUpload was raided and shut down earlier this month...
Question getting a degree
Graduation time is around the corner for the Spring 2012 class. Time to celebrate. Time to think ahead. Time to go out into workforce. With student debt piling up and the cost of living rising,...
Sidewalk smoking
When a chronic smoker decides it’s time to smoke, he or she is going to smoke. There’s nothing scientific about this. There are no formulas, extraneous variables or misleading statistics. Whole countries make their living...
Net on fire
Exactly one week ago thousands of websites temporarily blacked out content to protest online piracy bills. The US government seized a popular but dubious website the next day. Internet hacktivists struck soon after. The...
How Paterno should be remembered
If you looked for photos detailing reactions towards the passing of Joe Paterno, the images of Penn State students would be sobering. Hunched over cell phones, huddled in groups or reflecting inwardly, what you’d find...
Abstinence versus education
According to a new study by the Center for Disease Control, it appears that some teens are not entirely aware of where babies come from. The study examined use of contraception among five thousand teen...
Driving under influence of technology
Texting has affected many aspects of modern life. The New York Times summed up the phenomena best when they relayed this modern truth “some relationships live and die on the strength of the 160-character,...
