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Opinion

Congress must learn to compromise

March 5, 2013

March 1 came and went, and no deal to avoid sequestration was made. This means automatic budget cuts totaling nearly $85.4 billion will be established, slashing programs in special education, military...

Market society too dangerous for U.S.

March 4, 2013

Michael Sandel, a political philosopher and professor at Harvard, spent the day on campus on Wednesday. The author of “What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets,” Sandel spoke at a lunch...

Election ills shift focus off issues

March 4, 2013

Out of one election and into another. Admittedly, the upcoming elections for ASUU probably don’t register on students’ radars like the national elections did, despite students having a greater, more...

Letter to the Editor: Debate comments offensive

March 1, 2013

Editor: I recently listened to the radio broadcast of the ASUU election debates. I have friends running for both parties, so I wanted to support both sides. As far as I could tell, in my opinion the HOUSE...

Same-day voting registration won’t fix Utah voters’ apathy

March 1, 2013

Democrats in Utah have proposed HB 91, which would provide for same-day voter registration as ostensibly a means of countering lower voter turnout in Utah. For decades in the late 20th century, Utah had...

‘Sequester’ signifies new meaning for cuts

March 1, 2013

When the term sequester is brought up, most people believe it means separating a person or a thing from its normal environment. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, in fact, it means just: “to...

Students deserve non-pay parking

By By By Jonathan Deesing and By By Jonathan Deesing December 7, 2009

I used to have a V parking pass. It was glorious. I could park nearly everywhere but the lawn. But eventually, that era came to an end, and I had to buy a U pass. Before I had even paid tuition or bought my books, I was already forking over too much cash for a parking pass.

DeChristopher?s defense a fallacy

By By By Zack Oakey and By By Zack Oakey December 7, 2009

One of my friends is fond of saying: "Nobody is perfect. I am nobody, therefore I am perfect." If you understand why this statement is absurd, you are on the road to understanding what philosophers and rhetoricians call a logical fallacy. Fallacious statements are those that have no foundation in reality or contradict evidence.

Economic future getting brighter for students

By By By Brandon Beifuss and By By Brandon Beifuss December 4, 2009

Defying all attempted sanity and conventional post-Thanksgiving wisdom, I went shopping on Black Friday for the first time in my life. I might have cheated the system by leaving at 6 p.m., but the stores seemed just as full as any other day.

Undocumented students deserve scholarships

By By By Zack Oakey November 30, 2009

The law is an organism that packs in so much history and so many influences that it's scarcely within anyone's mental power to summarize every last point and its origin. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes expressed this systemic concept when he said, "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."

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