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Church joke no laughing matter

LOCAL church gains favor with God, prays for heathen Jews." Yom Kippur Services, St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 6:15 p.m. The preceding lines constituted the Oct.


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Honor lacks opportunity for truth

HOW DID we let our most sacred tradition become so irrelevant so fast? The honor system, where a meager seven students were found guilty in trials all of last year, continues along its death course, lifelessly plodding the winding road of indifference, fading into the sea of oblivion and good ideas forgotten.


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Twisting the facts to taint Gore

TEXAS Gov. George W. Bush, his running mate, the Republican Party, and several members of the media have attacked Vice President Al Gore recently on the issue of trustworthiness.


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Pulling plug on Texas executions

WHEN I was younger, my older brother would always beat me up. My parents tried to break up as many of our fights as they could, and it upset me that they always got mad at me for fighting back.


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FINALLY, an intelligent, exciting plan for encouraging diversity comes out of the administration.


Opinion

Immunizing pre-meds against rivalry

Medical ethics debates don't just involve abortion pills or assisted suicide. Here at the University, we are neither isolated nor immune from an important medical issue of our own: Pre-medicine has degenerated into a competition.


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Fostering false sense of security

NUMBERS fascinate our culture. Their quantitative nature implies truth. However, as Mark Twain noted, "there are lies, damned lies and statistics." Using numbers when reporting information can be both useful and harmful.


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Casting changes, not ballots

BAND-AIDS are meant to cover up unsightly wounds, not to heal them. All the hubbub about voting to make a difference, so that politicians hear your voice, is severely misguided. There are no strong moral reasons to vote.

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