Opinion
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Healthy Advice: Do not get this chicken tonight
You itched. You scratched. You took oatmeal baths and your mother rubbed calamine lotion on you. Yes, we’re talking about chickenpox. While most of us had it as kids, some are facing the dreaded...
Healthy Advice: Got itch?
Growing up, we all got a bit of a laugh at how awkward our parents were when trying to give us the sex talk. Even if your parents were nervous or awkward about “the talk,”...
Poor treatment of servers reaches tipping point
They say God moves in mysterious ways. In some ways, God moves people to great acts of mercy, kindness and altruism while in other ways, God moves people to acts of horrific violence and...
Gun control advocates too quick on the draw
NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre will not win any popularity contests, but he speaks sense. | Wikimedia Commons Jan. 30, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the topic of the gun...
Grading system is a plus
Kathleen Kennedy/The Daily Cougar Imagine working hard all semester for that coveted A only to fall short with an 89 and a 3.0 grade-point average that a regular B would get. Lucky for us,...
Obama, Senate immigrating to reform
President Barack Obama met with members of the Hispanic Congressional Caucus to discuss his immigration plan days before the Senate unveiled its plan. | Wikimedia Commons In the political wasteland of a sluggish economy,...
A fee that is bad for your fiscal health
In comparison to other college expenses, tuition, food, transportation, textbooks and such, the mandatory $84 per semester fee required for the Campus Recreation and Wellness Center is not essential to the UH experience. For...
An inaugural tale of two countries
Wikimedia Commons During his 2008 presidential campaign, then-Senator Barack Obama pledged to be different. He was supposed to be the anti-politician. The “Yes, we can” sort of president, not the “Yes, we did” speaker. His...
Tragic hero must continue to live strong
People had a lot to say about the disgraced, former seven-time Tour de France champion, Lance Armstrong and his “apology tour,” which started with a two-part interview with Oprah Winfrey on the Oprah Winfrey...
University of Vermont ends the bottled water Dasanity
They say the greatest trick ever pulled was the invention of bottled water. In a sea of soft drinks and sugar-filled juices, bottled water is such a tempting buy for people looking to be healthier....