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Patience: Why America Needs to Embrace Marijuana

Patience: Why America Needs to Embrace Marijuana

By Alisa Patience October 9, 2017

Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's good, and just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's bad. After all, divorce was illegal for most of our history. And people argue about guns...

Swanson: Spain’s Strategy of Occupying and Ignoring Catalonia is Not Going to Work Out

Swanson: Spain’s Strategy of Occupying and Ignoring Catalonia is Not Going to Work Out

By Gavin Swanson, Opinion Writer October 9, 2017

On this upcoming Monday, Catalonia will declare itself as an independent state separate from the Kingdom of Spain. After an unofficial vote in 2014 where 80 percent of Catalan voters chose secession, on...

Parkin: A Testing Guide for Students: How to Stay Sane

Parkin: A Testing Guide for Students: How to Stay Sane

By Natalie Parkin October 9, 2017

When a professor hands a student the study guide for one of their exams, most students do anything but read it. The routine of any student is pretty much the same once they plop their textbooks on their...

Groesbeck: Sweater Weather, Mastering the Transition From Summer to Fall

By Ren Groesbeck October 9, 2017

The transition from summer into fall presents a fashion challenge. The mornings are especially chilly but in the afternoon, the long-sleeves, sweaters and jackets are too hot to get around campus or stroll...

Patience: Dress Codes Serve as Disruption

Patience: Dress Codes Serve as Disruption

By Alisa Patience October 9, 2017

I highly doubt there is any student in America who has not been “dress coded.” For those who don’t know, a dress code is a set of rules, especially in K-12 schools, that outline what a person is...

Groesbeck: Terrorism By Any Other Name

Groesbeck: Terrorism By Any Other Name

By Ren Groesbeck October 5, 2017

It is time to politicize the terror attack by a white man at the music festival in Las Vegas. Whiteness protects people who organize terrorist attacks from being called a terrorist and instead are called...

Barney: We Are Too Numb To Death

Barney: We Are Too Numb To Death

By Autumn Barney October 4, 2017

I recently wrote a paper for a class on the show Black Mirror, which is a series of futuristic scenarios featuring the human race. All the episodes are different stories, and they are quite fascinating....

Richards: Appreciation or Appropriation?

Richards: Appreciation or Appropriation?

By Connor Richards October 4, 2017

Every Labor Day, the small town of Wellsville, Utah, hosts the Wellsville Founders’ Day Parade in celebration of the town’s founding. In addition to the parade, the northern Utah town’s 3,678 occupants...

Concert goers in Las Vegas flee as shooter Stephen Paddock unleashes on the crowd below.

Coleman: Avoid Hasty Decisions After Las Vegas Massacre

By Nicholas Coleman October 4, 2017

There is no mistaking that the massacre in Las Vegas was an act of pure evil. Instead of allowing the country to mourn, politicians and public figures hastily used the incident to push their monotonous...

Foglesong: Ben Shapiro, Intellectual Hit-Man

Foglesong: Ben Shapiro, Intellectual Hit-Man

By Samuel Foglesong October 2, 2017

On September 23, dedicated students rose well before dawn and waited for hours in the dark to get their tickets to see Ben Shapiro speak. Seating was initially scheduled to be on a first come, first serve...