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Or penny-pinching politics?

SO YOU come back to the University expecting everything to be normal (besides the construction, of course), but you know you are wrong once you step into the library.


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Fair printing policy...

MANY STUDENTS at the University have been troubled by recent announcements regarding the implementation of a printing limit in ITC public computing labs.


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Playboy punishment doesn't fit crime

LAST SPRING, Playboy magazine approached the student bodies of several universities in the Big 12 conference, including Baylor University, and solicited offers for students to appear in their publication.


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In reason we trust

FAITH is a funny thing. Hitorically it has driven men to the extremes of good and evil, warming many hearts with hope while destroying many others in malice.


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No more potty talk

OH, THE horror. A number of residents of Brown College and the Gooch-Dillard residence area believe the Big Bad Wolf Housing Division has wronged them, wronged them bad.


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Pay-for-print will sap students dry

During my past year at the University I lived without a car at 2112 -- a.k.a. the end of -- Jefferson Park Avenue, which, as all upperclassmen know and first years will soon find out, is possibly the worst idea ever.


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Academic freedom or disruption?

Sami Al-Arian, a tenured professor at the University of South Florida, has abused academic freedom. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Board of Trustees at the University of South Florida is going to court to see if it can fire Al-Arian for his supposed links to terrorism.


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Marketing the September 11 attacks

I DON'T often like to make moral appeals. I have never asked anyone to "think of the children." I have never said something should not be done "in the interest of common decency." That is why I feel slightly silly when I type the following phrase: Is nothing sacred?


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Attorney General Tyrant

JOHN ASHCROFT is the worst Attorney General that President Bush could have selected. Well, maybe that's an overstatement, but he certainly does not seem to possess any of the qualities and virtues necessary to be a good Attorney General of the United States.


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Targeting Saddam Hussein

CRITICS from both the United States and abroad have lambasted President Bush for his refusal to back down on his preparation for a military campaign to topple Saddam Hussein's regime.

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Latest Podcast

In this episode of On Record, Allison McVey, University Judiciary Committee Chair and fourth-year College student, discusses the Committee’s 70th anniversary, an unusually heavy caseload this past Fall semester and the responsibilities that come with student-led adjudication. From navigating serious health and safety cases to training new members and launching a new endowment, McVey explains how the UJC continues to adapt while remaining grounded in the University's core values of respect, safety and freedom.