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Does School Keep Getting in the Way of Your Education?
Get Involved Outside the Classroom,
Where Learning is Limitless
by: Steven Benson
With over 20,000 undergraduate students, it is very easy for one to get “lost in the crowd.” Walking through the Diag, students often see unfamiliar faces, an occurrence quite different from the typical high school...
Global Climate Change: Where to Next?
Take Responsibility and Take Action
by: Lilly Zoller
As children, we were all taught various invaluable life lessons such as: treat others as you want to be treated, always say please and thank you, and be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, it seems that the United States government missed...
Should Obese Airline Passengers Pay Extra?
Obese Passengers Create an Unfair Burden?
by: Jae H. Chung
Anyone who needs multiple seats due to their size should be required to purchase multiple seats. Why? Let’s conduct a thought experiment where the large passenger sits in a seat located by the aisle. In order for the large passenger...
Selling Kidneys for Cash
Cash-For-Kidneys?
NO Sale!
by: Robert L. Houbeck
You trudge along the Huron, absorbed in wonder at what the miracle of compound interest is doing to your college debt. Suddenly, a splash, a cry. A man flails in the water. He can’t swim; you can. “Please, help me!” You (1), plunge...
Student Volunteers in Haiti: Harmful or Helpful?
On January 12, 2010 a massive earthquake struck the nation of Haiti…The United States Government has deployed over 13,000 troops, treated over 7,000 patients, and evacuated over 10,500 people as of January 21st.
The White House-Office of the Press Secretary-January 21, 2010
Student Development...
Is Revitalized Detroit Worth the Effort?
Detroit: Mocked City
by: David Greany
Detroit is a landscape littered with abandoned and dilapidated buildings which have little chance of attracting future tenants. These empty shells stand in a city that has been bleeding residents since the early 1950’s. Detroit has been in a perpetual state...
