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(10/29/15 4:05am)
Prisoners made mistakes. That’s a given. Having violated laws, our prison population is filled with the violent and nonviolent breakers of the so-called social contract between the state and individual. However, we must not forget that prisoners are humans, too. In response to private prison companies charging $14 per minute for phone calls, the Federal Communications Commission has placed restrictions on this ridiculous practice. With rancorous uproar from the private prison industry decrying the government’s relentless attempts to illegitimately regulate business, prisoners need support from citizens to resist the profit-mongering wishes of those oppressively taxing a direct connection between prisoners and their families.
(10/22/15 4:20am)
Students at the University drink. Shocker, I know. While the administration has correctly focused not on abstinence-only policies but rather on making sure students who choose to partake do so in a safe manner, students still lack all the safety resources the University should provide. Following the recent strategies of the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina, the University should sponsor free Uber rides for students during peak activity hours to provide a convenient, quick and safe alternative to driving or walking home intoxicated.
(10/15/15 4:20am)
Advertisements stink. Popular websites are littered with intrusive banners, automatic-playing, unmuted videos and pop-up messages with impossible-to-click Xs. As content providers naturally try to increase their profits, Internet users have employed ad blockers to remove increasingly annoying and disruptive advertisements. However, for the Internet to remain a beautiful habitat of free expression and privacy, consumers must continue to use ad blockers and fight to preserve their legality while recognizing the benefits of a compromise that addresses consumers’ desire for unfettered access and advertisers’ desire for revenue.
(10/08/15 4:05am)
Data are everywhere. Interpreting those data can be a daunting process. Predictive analytics allow for this vast library of collected data to be repackaged in a more readable manner while describing how to eliminate inefficiencies and optimize a given problem. Andrew Powell, a former University of North Caroline student body president, detailed his vision for a smarter class registration system that blends big data and airline companies. Combining the University’s access to course enrollment, drop, completion and room location data with airline companies’ overbooking practices, we have the opportunity to build a class enrollment system that is more efficient and effective.
(10/01/15 4:15am)
Everyone has to eat, especially we perennially hungry University students. Increasingly, however, University students are enticed into purchasing dining plans that overcharge and restrict student flexibility. An analysis of the Semester 50 dining plan reveals that not only can these plans be cost-inefficient but they also contain ridiculous requirements that lead to higher revenues for the University at the expense of students.
(09/24/15 4:00am)
On Sept. 8, 2015, Stephen Colbert joined the realm of late night shows dominated by an increasingly indistinguishable assortment of white males. Television networks have continued to display reluctance to selecting diverse hosts. At a time when 22.6 percent of the U.S. population is a racial minority and women outnumber men, it is time networks modernize their late night talk shows to better reflect the diverse nation we are.
(09/17/15 4:05am)
Everyone has it. That jar back home filled with hundreds of pennies that will never see the light of day. At least, until you decide one day that enough is enough and proceed to dump the coins haphazardly into a Coinstar. Pennies are for tossing in the center console of a car. They’re for getting stuck between couch cushions and for seniors paying exact change in line at CVS. The rise of credit cards, Venmo and Apple Pay has highlighted an urgent new reality: it is time to discontinue the penny.
(04/23/15 4:00am)
Listening intently to the two gentlemen seated next to me on the bottom floor of Clemons Library discuss their boisterous escapades from the previous night, I concluded that everyone else on the floor must hear their conversation, too.