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Student chastises

[email protected] • October 30, 2003

It is not the policy toward plagiarism or the result of such an offense that bothers me. Rather, I was very disturbed by the reaction of the student body toward the incident involving former Tribune associate sports editor Sarah Sherman. Before I say...

Trimble tramples peace

[email protected] • October 30, 2003

Trimble has turned the Irish peace process into a farce with his tactics of finding pretext upon pretext for not allowing the process to proceed. It is time that the British and Irish governments take measures to see to it that this wielder of...

Actor portrays respect

[email protected] • October 28, 2003

Even when the school year ends, there is no rest for my brother. He has football camp every summer, which takes place five days a week and lasts up to up to eight hours a day (depending on whether he's in doubles). Knowing how challenging and time...

‘Geek’ wires up ITS appreciation

[email protected] • October 28, 2003

What many people don't realize is that system administrators are cursed. They work their tails off to ensure that everything works flawlessly, and when it does no one notices that it does. Instead, it is when things break (usually because of a user) that...

Marquette Madness drives attendee nuts

[email protected] • October 28, 2003

Burbey is a sophomore accounting and international business major.

Noise irks MU

[email protected] • October 28, 2003

It has gotten to the point where it is pointless to even set my alarm for the morning because I know I will be up at 7:30 a.m. However, each night before I go to bed, I still set it in the hopes that — for whatever reason — there will not be...

Hypocrisy on the right assails personal rights

[email protected] • October 28, 2003

People can disagree on the issues of "pulling the plug" and abortion. However, the message that conservatives sent in both cases is that it doesn't matter what citizens think. No matter which side of the issues you're on, your views come second to those...

Organization denied

John Heiderscheidt • October 21, 2003

Junior Katy Rose, a member of the group trying to form VOXX, believes Planned Parenthood has been unfairly stigmatized.
"I really feel Planned Parenthood has a negative connotation to it," she said. "Most people view it negatively just because they feel...

Stop theft simply

Matt Kaminecki • October 14, 2003

Kaminecki is a freshman mechaincal engineering major.

Sex proves very complex

[email protected] • October 14, 2003

Why is it that we are baby-talking and coddling grown men with a message, which implies that women will fall for men's selfish desires if men only "ask?" What is the message "Asking for consent is sexy" is supposed to tell a man? Does a man have to feel...

China’s flight launches debate on space agency

Bob Mate • October 14, 2003

However, Columbia has provided a chance to alter America's focus in space by showing the need for new launch vehicles. NASA spokesman Michael Braukus said that NASA's Orbital Space Plane program is developing a vehicle to carry astronauts back from the...

Advocate of flag’s removal strikes back

Jason Keener • October 14, 2003

Aristotle formulated a useful truth. It is called the "principle of non-contradiction." This principle holds that a statement cannot simultaneously be both true and false. For example, nothing can at once both have an attribute like redness and, at the...

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