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“Tilt 2005” is no more for fear students will fall in

DKS Editors October 6, 2010

Art pieces have popped up left and right around campus this year, but Wednesday, one piece of work lost its spot on the Esplanade.The newspaper stack next to the Art Building appropriately named “Tilt...

Jose

Nicole Hennessy October 6, 2010

You should not go out and get drunk with your already drunk roommate, end your alcohol consumption with tequila, then push your beds together so you can have a “sleepover party,” which inevitably results...

Cheers and Jeers for October 6

DKS Editors October 6, 2010

CheersCheers to the Chavez-Pina wedding in Oscar Ritchie Hall. They’re not the first to wed on campus, and we hope they won’t be the last.Cheers to the depression screening Thursday. It’s a nice...

United States must take risks to succeed

Michael Kahn October 5, 2010

The year is 1933. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announces the New Deal to recover from the Great Depression.The year is 1961. President John F. Kennedy announces that Americans are going to the moon...

Gay suicide for fear of harassment is unacceptable

DKS Editors October 5, 2010

For Tyler Clementi, plunging to his death in the Hudson River was a better option than everyone finding out he was gay.Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University, jumped off the George Washington Bridge...

When closeted gays become government officials

Thisanjali Gangoda October 5, 2010

In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled anti-sodomy laws in Lawrence v. Texas on the grounds that it was “an invasion of privacy,” as opposed to declaring the laws as being blatantly discriminatory....

Qualifying morality

Matthew Colwell October 4, 2010

Consistently badgered with events, rallies, fundraisers, “awareness days” and so much more, we often fight for reassurance of our own morality, rather than against real prejudice. Instead of acting,...

Response to Sept. 30 Our View titled “Are. You. SERIOUS?”

Marybeth Cieplinski October 4, 2010

Good opinion piece, guys, with some great arguments against the new clock-tower-bowling-lawn design outside the Student Center. But you missed a major point against it: lack of access for students with...

Our View for October 4

DKS Editors October 4, 2010

It’s happened to all of us, we’re college students after all. You stop at Wendy’s on the way home from class to grab a quick bite, and unbeknownst to you, that $5 meal drains the last of your $3.50...

The future of Major League Soccer

Patrick St. Pierre October 3, 2010

I was playing “FIFA 11” the other day and a funny realization came to me. I was playing with my favorite team, Manchester United, and I thought, “I have never, in years of playing FIFA games, played...

Frat boys, keep your pants on

SarahBeth Caplin October 3, 2010

I found it amusing that the brothers of Sigma Nu found a noble cause for dropping their pants. But really, would breast cancer awareness be the first thing that comes to your mind when you see a pants-less...

All hail the mighty electric overlord!

Molly Cahill October 3, 2010

The best horror movies are the ones that are based, however tentatively, in reality. Logically you know that the events playing out before you on the screen could not really occur. But fear is one of our...

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