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Picking a major can be difficult

By Zubin Khan · Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015

Often, picking a major can seem daunting. You’re straight out of high school, 18 years old and you’re expected to choose what path you want in life despite barely having experienced it yet.

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Young women should get the HPV vaccine

By Micaela Stevenson · Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015

Every year I get a physical to make sure I am healthy. I sit in the lobby of my doctor’s office and fill out a sheet of paper describing how I’ve been feeling and what I’ve been eating.

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Lessons learned in kindergarten still apply in college

By Marianne McCreight · Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2015

I think EMU orientation should include mandatory review of the basic lessons or life rules we all learned in kindergarten (if we attended kindergarten in this country). Since there are plenty of international students that did not live here when they were five years old and, since some of us haven’t been in kindergarten in more years than we care to count, review of these rules should be mandatory for ALL students (ESPECIALLY COMMUTER STUDENTS) upon entry to EMU.

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We must demand action on gun violence

By Jacques Vorves · Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015

294. That’s the number of mass shootings, or “incidents where four or more people are killed or injured by gunfire,” that have happened this year, according to Christopher Ingraham of The Washington Post. 294 mass shootings, out of 274 days, as of October 1.

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Is a college degree really worth it?

By Corson Nikkel · Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015

The Huffington Post’s Lucy Sherriff comments on the fact that Ernst & Young, an international professional services firm headquartered in London, U.K., will no longer be using a college degree as a criteria for its positions.

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Is Bernie Sanders really such a long shot?

By Jane Mandley · Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015

I have admitted before that I don’t know much about politics. If I walked by a television that had a governor, senator or even our own president on the screen giving some sort of speech, I wasn’t going to stop and listen to what they had to say.

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Bernie Sanders is wrong about income inequality

By Alison Basley · Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has said that, “The issue of wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time,” and “for the last 40 years the great middle class of our country—once the envy of the world—has been disappearing.” Sympathy for this kind of outrage is reflecting in the polls, showing Sanders to be a legitimate threat to Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire and Iowa.

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Why you should support local businesses

By Leaha Dotson · Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2015

The world today is vastly interconnected and the effects of globalization are seen virtually everywhere, but, despite this, I am still a huge supporter of local businesses.

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We cannot forget Sandra Bland

By Micaela Stevenson · Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015

Racism in this country is not gone. It has simply transformed. Most people who paid attention to the news in early July, and who continued to pay attention, know about the death of Sandra Bland.

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Why we can't and shouldn't ignore sexism

By Micaela Stevenson · Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015

It is well past time that we begin paying attention to sexism. It is well past time that we begin actually doing something about it. The other day, I was walking through the doors of the Mark Jefferson building to get to my chemistry class.

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