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This Day in History: May 7
A 1995 taping for the tabloid talk show "The Jenny Jones Show" highlighted the exploitation of homosexual ex-soldier Scott Amedure. After his term in the United States Army was ended with a broken leg, Amedure enlisted in the Army Reserve and received an Honorable Discharge once his contract ended.…
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Potent Pollution Prevention
The American Lung Association released its annual report on air pollution Thursday, ranking cities affected by pollution. Pittsburgh trumped the Los Angeles area as the top U.S. city most polluted by short-term particle pollution.
Harmful human living habits - driving petroleum-based automobiles, using computers powered by coal-fired power plants and use and improper disposal of products that harm the environment are all part of problem.…
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Tanner's Tangent
Welcome to the scholastic incarceration for those with middle class, low class and no class parents. Feel discouraged? Me too. Graduation, transferring, escape, or whatever you prefer to call it, is upon us.
I know what it's like. I've attended that cocktail party full of tweed-jacket clad, glasses-wearing university types; trying to hold my own in a discussion of advanced economics theory.…
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Threat Assessment Process Could Violate Students' RightsFC's threat-prevention program is admirable but could go too far
After Sept. 11, the Bush administration asked the public what rights it would give up for the sake of safety. After Virginia Tech, colleges around the country are asking their students the same thing.
Fullerton College's first line of defense against incidents comparable to shootings in Virginia is designed to stop potentially dangerous members of the FC community from taking out aggression on fellow students, instructors or FC staff members.…
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Should airport security have the ability to searchPoint Counterpoint
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently overturned a court decision that declared Customs officials could not legally search the contents of a personal computer without due cause.
This means that Michael Arnold, who was caught with a laptop containing child pornography after a 2005 vacation to the Philippines, faces up to 30 years in federal prison.…
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Tanner's Tangent
Aliza Shvarts is a student majoring in art at Yale. For her senior art project Shvarts artificially inseminated herself and induced miscarriages multiple times during a nine-month period to display the documentation of the act.
I realize that "art" has degenerated into goth chicks blowing snot on a canvas and calling it a Da Vinci, but I think we have crossed the looking glass threshold from the laughable to the truly disgusting.…
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This Day in History: April 30
"Hitler Dead" was the short but succinct headline of the London News Chronicle April 2, when Berlin finally surrendered as Soviet troops stormed through the German capitol. According to eyewitness accounts from personal aides of the fallen Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler shot himself and his mistress Eva Braun while also digesting a potent cyanide capsule.…
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