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Standing up to the Monster Called Standardized Testing

Amanda Lingwai February 20, 2013

   - [post-date] -   “What’s really the purpose of education,” when education is teaching to the test? That is a valid question posed in a Chicago Sun-Times article by a CPS parent,...

State Secession

Secession of Stupid States

Lauren Gugwor February 8, 2013

  - [post-date] - Weeks after President Barack Obama’s re-election, Republicans around the country are still finding ways to come to terms with it; be it waiting for the Ohio votes to...

Westboro

Doth Protest Too Much, Methinks

Chris Tormos February 8, 2013

    - [post-date] - The Westboro Baptist Church has unfortunately wriggled their way into our lives through the bizarre, attention-seeking behavior they have become known for. The...

Letter to the Editor – Sandy Hook Shooting

Harry G. Karadimos February 8, 2013

  - [post-date] - On Dec. 14, 2012, Adam Lanza walked into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown CT and murdered 26 people with firearms that he reportedly took from his mother. Twenty...

Gun Control

Gun Control

Ari Guttman February 8, 2013

  - [post-date] - The recent large-scale shootings across the U.S. have brought the issues of gun control and gun sales regulation to the forefront of conversation and legislation. Also...

Will Egypt Degenerate into a Theocracy?

Hiram Crespo February 8, 2013

  - [post-date] - Egypt in 2011 had a revolution where people died on the streets thirsty for freedom and furious against tyranny.  Now, as the dust is settling, the draft of a new constitution...

Scanner

Patent Trolls Lurking Under Every Bridge

Lauren Gugwor January 26, 2013

  Trolling, the act of intentionally inciting anger or distress, usually through posting a message, derived from the fishing action of dragging a lure until something (or someone in this case)...

Sandy Hook memorial

Sandy Hook- The Tragedy Shoved Down Nation’s Throat

George H. Borawski January 26, 2013

  News definably, has specific influence or effect on the audience. Does the Sandy Hook tragedy directly affect anyone in the area?  What could warrant the amount of coverage, for weeks at...

President of Bolivia Evo Morales December 2009
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2012: The Awakening of the Sleeping Monster of Global People-Power

Hiram Crespo January 26, 2013

    In recent years, the Mayan script has been decoded and great advances have been made in our understanding of Mayan culture. This has inspired a renewal of interest in Mayan spiritual...

Manti Teo

Catfishing – When People Take The Bait

Jacklyn Nowotnik January 26, 2013

  Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o found out the hard way that even having celebrity status won’t necessarily protect a person from being “catfished.” According to the Urban Dictionary...

Letter To The Editor

Peter Ali Enger January 22, 2013

You recently ran an article on the front page of your paper titled “WZRD 88.3 Back In Business”. We in the WZRD Collective object to this article on the following grounds: for one thing, it is wrong....

Letter To The Editor

Peter Ali Enger December 5, 2012

  You recently ran an article on the front page of your paper titled “WZRD 88.3 Back In Business”. We in the WZRD Collective object to this article on the following grounds: for one thing,...

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