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Our view: Know your school

DKS Editors February 24, 2012

Without a doubt, the most important relationship by far at the university level lies between the students and faculty. Student-faculty relationships often extend well beyond just a lecture and a Scantron...

Guest Columnist: The Egyptian Revolution, a year later

Wael Nawara February 23, 2012

About 13 months ago, on a winter Saturday morning, we assembled at a small office in Talaat Harb square, merely feet away from Tahrir. We discussed how our party, El Ghad, would participate in the “Revolution”...

 

Opinion: Your personality is ___________?

Andrew Paulsen February 23, 2012

Andrew Paulsen Andrew Paulsen is a senior electronic media production major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at [email protected]. On Tuesday, I walked in late to my entrepreneurship...

Our View: School makes $190,000 after charging its students for detentions

DKS Editors February 23, 2012

Ah, high school. Remember those days when your biggest issues were skirt length, the obscenities on your shirt, getting mad about not being able to chew gum and keeping your kicks tied tight? Well, 10...

 

Opinion: Political Playground

Bruce Walton February 23, 2012

Bruce Walton Bruce Walton is a freshman news major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at [email protected]. Last week, one of my readers told me that I have a habit of “exclusively...

Guest Column: Atomic energy not the answer

Bryan Washington February 22, 2012

Once upon a time, nuclear energy was just a domineering question mark. Its variables, limits and potentials were only a matter of speculation, without any variables to draw from, and the more curious nations...

 

Opinion: The impact of alien first contact

Robert Thomas Young February 22, 2012

Robert Thomas Young Robert Thomas Young is a senior philosophy major and columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact him at [email protected] Can you imagine how Native Americans felt when they first...

Our View: No ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Cards for felonies

DKS Editors February 22, 2012

In April 2011, Antonino Bucca and Drew H. Patenaude were arrested on charges of identity fraud, forgery and telecommunications fraud because of their fake ID operation. Recently, Bucca and Patenaude were...

 

Opinion: Porn stars now required to wrap it before they tap it

Elaina Sauber February 22, 2012

Elaina Sauber Elaina Sauber is a sophomore English major and a columnist for the Daily Kent Stater. Contact her at [email protected]. Last month, Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed a new law...

Our View: Pro-shoplifting policy gets ‘the boot’

DKS editors February 21, 2012

The Huffington Post ran a headline Sunday that read “American Apparel cracks down on shoplifting, loses hipster fans.”The lead? “Thieving hipsters, take note.”The article went on to describe how...

Letter to the Editor: Racial Insensitivity

Shelley Blundell February 21, 2012

Dear author of Monday, Feb. 20’s “Our View,”Within the Our View piece of Monday, Feb. 20, which discusses the atrocity of the racial slur used in the headline of an ESPN story about basketball player...

Our View: Offensive headline gets an ESPN employee fired

DKS editors February 20, 2012

If you go to ESPN’s website and type “Chink in the armor” in the search engine, the site transfers you to a message that reads “NOT FOUND: http://espn.go.com/404.html.”That’s because the story...

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