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Several thousand people marched peacefully across Pittsburgh in protest of the G-20 Summit.

Letter: Idealism battered at G-20 summit protest

By Andrew Stefan · Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009

Between September 24th and 26th I was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania covering the G-20 Summit resistance movement as an independent journalist.

Give Cookie Monster back his snack

By Hannah Schwab · Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009

My love for PBS and its entertaining yet educational characters is why I have jumped up on my soap box, albeit a little late, in defense of one loveable blue monster: Cookie Monster.

GOP options: Change ideas, switch parties

Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009

The GOP is SOL without either serious reform to its platform or some new ideas that don’t turn away voters. Failing this reform, a new party will eventually fill the political void, as has been done before.

Ethics shifting in journalism

By Nick Shlain · Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009

Down is the new up. Nazi is the new black. Jon Stewart is the new Walter Cronkite. No, really. In a Time magazine poll this summer, 44 percent of Americans voted Stewart America’s best newsman.

Letter: Stop buying what sex sells

By Amber Bauerle · Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009

My attention was brought to something very disturbing the other day. The Eastern Michigan University hockey team has new posters for the 2009-2010 season. Rather than displaying pictures of the team or coaches, they depict our female classmates in nothing more than hockey jerseys and heels.

Michigan’s auto industry: We need to just get over it

By Chris Hoitash · Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009

Michigan has a rather long history. Various things have taken prominence in this state’s history. First and foremost was the fur trade, almost the sole reason for French exploration of the area, beyond finding the non-existent waterway to the East Indies.

U.S. Constitution needs 28th Amendment ensuring all Congress members are elected

By Neil Weinberg · Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009

Since the passage of the Bill of Rights, the United States Constitution has been amended just 17 times.

EMU students need food service at McKenny

By Erin Gullekson · Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009

A few years ago the new Student Center was built and food services in McKenny Hall ceased to exist. This worked out fine for people who parked near the Student Center or had classes in a nearby building, but what about the people at the front of campus? As a student who has all of her classes in the front of campus, I find this to be very annoying.

Where were budget critics during Bush years?

By Donald Stuckey II · Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009

I have a very simple question for many of these so-called conservatives who are currently protesting President Obama and the choices he has made to help get this economy back on the right track: Where have you people been?

State budget cuts add to financial aid woes

By Hannah Schwab · Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009

As the semester kicks off there is one thing we can all relate to: the stress that comes from paying for the classes we just started taking. I know when my tuition bill was e-mailed to me this summer, my heart skipped a beat, and not in a good way.

Texting both blessing and curse

By Erin Gullekson · Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009

Texting – it’s a handy little technology that many of us use from time to time when it’s inconvenient to call. But sometimes I feel like people rely so much on texting that they forget the rules of common courtesy.

Take Obama, please

By Nick Shlain · Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

As we go to print, America remains in limbo. A country politically divided was promised “change” and told to “believe” – and atheist democrats bought that crap.

Recent Echo column based on political lies

By Jim Cavanaugh · Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

Something about Adam Holmes’ Sept. 8 piece, “Obama wants kids’ minds washed clean,” rubbed me the wrong way. At first I couldn’t quite place it, but then it occurred to me: Nearly the entire column was built around a series of lies.

Letter: Digital lifestyle not causing epidemic of civic rudeness

By Stephen Vela · Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

I would like to voice a response to the article titled “A rude new world” under B5’s Opinions.

Not all ideas are big

Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

Over the course of two years writing for the Echo, I have had many ideas for articles. Not all of them were long enough to make an actual article, but I believe they are still important.

A rude new world

By Jill Faulkner-Bogdan · Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009

Collectively, we do not disconnect ourselves long enough to say, “thank you” or “you’re welcome” when a door is held open for us, “excuse me” when we bump into others in the hall, or “bless you” when someone sneezes. We have all become too technologically involved for the most common of courtesies.

Codgers' revolt: Trust no one who's under 50

By Jon Maravelias · Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009

The pendulum may have swung a full 180 since the ‘60s, with the rise of the extremist right wing grandma and grandpas taking their stance at the podiums.

Regulation needed on textbook monopoly

By Erin Gullekson · Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009

Now that classes are underway it is time for all of us to head to the bookstore where we will stand in long lines in order to shell out massive amounts of money on textbooks. The cost of books is something many college students struggle with and for good reason.

Childishness hurts chances for health care compromise

By Neil Weinberg · Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009

President Obama said something very interesting when he spoke before Congress Wednesday night. The president echoed something this columnist, and many others outside of the beltway have said many times over the last few months. He said we agree on about 80 percent of what appears in the healthcare bill.

Obama wants kids' minds washed clean

By Adam Holmes · Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009

Of all the things Obama has done behind America’s back, giving the kids of our nation a private speech via the education system is the most worrisome. This is simply another addition to a very long laundry list of questionable, if not objectionable, ideas that have escaped from the White House.

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