What we should ask runnin’ candidates

The questions routinely asked of our presidential candidates are insufficient for assessing their potential ability to lead the nation.

Letter to the editor: Importance of preschool

For a big group of parents it’s always easier to turn cartoons on or even open the front door and send your kids outside to ride bikes than it is to sit down with them and find a way to engage their minds

The way we see it: Civically engage or die

Millennials, those of us born after 1982, have been dubbed “Generation Me” by psychologists.

Letter to the Editor: Response to ‘A girl’s guide to dating a sports guy’

Briana Cornwall is a junior social sciences and English major with a gender studies minor. Student newspapers exist to give voice to those paying to attend school.  They offer glimpses into the university culture and the perspectives of students devoting their energies to campus life.  But yet again, the Arbiter fails to do this—at least, [...]

Student Voices Death Penalty

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“Do you think America should have the death penalty? Why or why not?”

America should kill the death penalty

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Seven months ago, convicted murderer Paul Ezra Rhoades was executed in Idaho.

Hoetip #202: Things get rough when people lie, don’t do it or you’ll only have yourself to blame

This is a commentary on “Hoetips,” a viral internet meme. Read a new commentary about a Hoetip every Wednesday. Things get way more complicated when a lie enters the situation. Once you lie about something you have to continue to lie to keep up with your first lie. Before you know it you’ll have a [...]

The way we see it: Protecting citizens should not take away their rights

The whisper of pen to paper passed relatively unnoticed when President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2012.

Free speech is still a fundamental right

Sarah Palin Speech in Turlock, Calif

The ideas listed here in the first amendment are some of the most important to the Founding Fathers if you consider their placement at the front of the line.

Letter to the editor: Be you.(tiful)

In a society that is filled with pressures of conformity, labels, and unbelievably high standards, it’s extremely easy for adolescent girls to get a bad reputation.

 

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