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In this photo taken on Friday, April 12, 2013, Gaspar Perricone cleans one of his guns at his home in Denver. Perricone co-founded The Bull Moose Sportsmen’s Alliance, a group that took the unusual step earlier this month of releasing a poll that showed wide support among hunters for universal background checks. Most public polls have shown about 90 percent of voters support such a measure. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

Opinion: Publicizing concealed permit applicants makes no sense

By Landon Mills April 23, 2013

The gun arguments are getting old, despite the radical nature they draw out among opposing ideologies. In The Advocate last week, an opinion column suggested concealed weapons permit applicants be placed...

Opinion: Pecchioni’s freak-out on CMST class justified

By Aaron Friedman April 22, 2013

Professor Loretta Pecchioni decided last Wednesday it was time to give her Communication Studies 4112 class real communication to study. She sent an email 15 minutes into the 10:30 a.m. class that essentially...

Regular absences bad for teachers and students alike

By Aaron Friedman April 22, 2013

Professor Loretta Pecchioni decided last Wednesday that it was time to give her 4112 Communication Studies class real communication to study. She sent an email 15 minutes into the 10:30 a.m. class, that...

Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff says higher inflation would help debtors by allowing them to pay back their debts with cheaper dollars.

Opinion: Errors in economist’s paper prove austerity a bad policy

By Jay Meyers April 22, 2013

Picture this: It’s 2007. After graduating with a degree in finance from Louisiana State University, you are now comfortably employed as an analyst at a mid-sized investment bank. Now, fast-forward...

FILE - In this Monday, April 15, 2013 file photo provided by Ben Thorndike, people react to an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston. Since Monday, Boston has experienced five days of fear, beginning with the marathon bombing attack, an intense manhunt and much uncertainty ending in the death of one suspect and the capture of the other. (AP Photo/Ben Thorndike, File)

Opinion: Recent tragedies difficult to understand

By Nicholas Pierce April 21, 2013

Tamerlan Tsarnaev is dead — killed in a fire fight with Boston-area police — and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is finally in custody. Last week, as thick gray smoke billowed across the finish line of...

Opinion: Astronaut reminds us to remember Earth’s beauty

By Megan Dunbar April 21, 2013

If there’s one thing everyone can agree on, it’s the awesomeness of nature. That’s not refutable, especially on a day like Earth Day. In almost every incidence otherwise — politics,...

This April 3, 2013 photo provided by the Greeley Police shows the text message University of Northern Colorado student Alexander Heit was typing to an unidentified person when police say he lost control of his car and ran off the road. He was taken to North Colorado Medical Center where he later died. Now his parents are hoping to convince others not to text and drive. The name of the message's recipient was redacted by the Greeley Police to protect the recipient's identity. (AP Photo/Greeley Police)

Opinion: Proposed bill won’t eliminate all driving distractions

By Ben Wallace April 21, 2013

Laws are meant to protect people from themselves, other people and in many cases, both. Some laws are written with this in mind, but in reality, they cannot be enforced properly without miniature hovering...

Opinion: Congress needs to work together rather than bicker

(UWIRE) — How do we work together? That seems to me to be the question for this new year. We’ve certainly spent more than enough time learning how to disagree. Just ask the United States...

FILE - In this June 23, 1982 file photo, Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gestures with her pen as she answers a reporters question during a news conference at the United Nations. Ex-spokesman Tim Bell says that Thatcher has died. She was 87. Bell said the woman known to friends and foes as "the Iron Lady" passed away Monday morning, April 8, 2013. (AP Photo/File)

Opinion: Margaret Thatcher’s death offers look at modern conservatism

By Gordon Brillon April 18, 2013

Oftentimes, we liberals like to exaggerate when it comes to describing our political nemeses. George W. Bush wasn’t actually a money-grubbing warmonger, just an easily-swayed patsy surrounded by...

FILE - In this March 14, 2013, file photo, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress returns Monday, April 8, 2013, from a two-week spring recess with gun control and immigration high on the Senate's agenda. Short of unanimous support in their own party, Democratic senators have been unable to strike a deal with Republicans for the votes they will need to push background check legislation through the chamber. Reid might delay debate to give bargainers more time, underscoring how crucial the proposal is to the gun control drive. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Opinion: Congress ignores Americans as gun bill fails

By Parker Cramer April 18, 2013

Everybody knows somebody who shouldn’t own a gun — but chances are, that somebody owns several. Why is this? How are guns finding their way to irresponsible or dangerous owners? Shouldn’t...

Opinion: Cajun culture needs preservation

Opinion: Cajun culture needs preservation

By Chris Ortte April 17, 2013

In last year’s session at the Louisiana legislature, Gov. Bobby Jindal cut the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana’s budget by $100,000, saying the organization “has been...

In this April 3, 2013 photo, Mike Caldwell, a 35-year-old software engineer, holds a 25 Bitcoin token at his shop in Sandy, Utah. Caldwell mints physical versions of bitcoins, cranking out homemade tokens with codes protected by tamper-proof holographic seals, a retro-futuristic kind of prepaid cash. With up to 70,000 transactions each day over the past month, bitcoins have been propelled from the world of Internet oddities to the cusp of mainstream use, a remarkable breakthrough for a currency which made its online debut only four years ago. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Opinion: Bitcoin’s value, future uncertain because of volatility

By David Scheuermann April 17, 2013

Technology moves at the blink of an eye. Computers now stand in for typewriters, film has been replaced with digital imagery and even our phones do much more than make calls. It only makes sense for...