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Walking on Thin Ice: Drowning out British Petroleum: Dispersants were last straw

By Priyanka Bhatia
Columnist
February 6, 2011

If it wasn't enough for a large corporation to be horribly unprepared for what became an imminent tragedy, the company allowed its mistake to rape our ecosystem to such an extent that it may never recover. New...

Graduate school: not just another two years of undergraduate studies



By Staci Thornton, Advice Columnist
January 30, 2011



Everyone in college is asking themselves the same question: what am I going to do with my life? There are only a few college students who can actually answer that question; the rest are still...

Pop Goes the Culture: Tyler and Lopez are an awkward fit for “Idol”

By Kelly Hotard
Columnist
January 27, 2011

Have you heard? "American Idol" hired two new judges. Just some low-profile pundits by the names of Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez — no one special. If you went underground for the past year, during...

The C-Section: Gun-control laws only affect the law-abiding

By Chris Grillot
Columnist
January 27, 2011

The morning of Jan. 8 in Tucson, Ariz., started violently. Around 10:10 a.m. Jared Loughner, a deranged 22-year-old, carried a pistol into a crowd of people listening to U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords speak...

Shockingly Simple: Our national gun-control laws are full of bullet holes

By Andrew Shockey
Columnist
January 27, 2011

Many Americans place great value on the Constitution and the intentions of the Founding Fathers. While I respect them and the innovative system of government they were able to create, there is no reason...

View From Another School: Dan Rather: American journalism could be in trouble

WASHINGTON, D.C. (U-WIRE)-Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather is worried about the future of his profession. The increasingly biased media will threaten the nation, Rather said at a speech at American University...

Cancel the Apocalypse: The end of the world is drawing near … once again

By Andrew Robertson
Columnist
January 26, 2011

Sell the house and quit your job — Jesus is coming back! I know you're thinking, "Haven't I heard this countless times before?" But wait, this time it's different. I'm super-duper serious. Harold...

The Bottom Line: Majority of companies offering cash for gold are scams

By Devin Graham
Opinion Editor
January 26, 2011

In the last few years, we've seen an explosion of businesses and websites offering to take your unused jewelry off your hands. Presumably, we all have a stockpile of gold bullion sitting in our garages,...

Failure of Diplomacy: A columnist’s State of the Union addressing key issues

By Zachary Davis
January 25, 2011

My fellow Americans, as most of us undoubtedly know, our country faces many major issues as it nears its 235th birthday. But as the specter of terrorism continues to hang over us and the actions of foreign...

Campus-Resident Alien: Prejudice is a matter of personal ignorance – fight yours

By Marcelo Vieira
Columnist
January 25, 2011

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, co-chairwoman of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party and first Muslim to be a cabinet minister, said last week during a speech at the University of Leicester that "Islamophobia...

Press X To Not Die: Your mom will definitely hate this column, ‘Dead Space 2’

By Adam Arinder
January 25, 2011

"I think it'll make a person become insane." "I don't think I've ever seen anything so horrible." "Why would they even make something like this?" Normally, quotes like these would not be what a company...

The Bottom Line: Training church parishioners to use guns is in the wrong Spirit

By Devin Graham
Opinion Editor
January 25, 2011

On July 6, 2010, our beloved Piyush "Bobby" Jindal signed into effect the controversial "Guns in Churches" bill, which allows for the carrying of firearms into religious buildings. Now, I understand how...