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COLUMN: The Indiana primary is great for Indiana and IU

By Steven Aranyi · Wednesday, April 27,2016 7:40 p.m.

On May 3, all eyes will be on Indiana as the crucial Indiana Primary takes place for both the Democratic and Republican Presidential Primaries take place across the state. All candidates have been campaigning in Indiana, except Ohio Governor John Kasich, who backed out to allow Sen.

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COLUMN: Stop talking about dream jobs

By Maggie Eickhoff · Wednesday, April 27,2016 7:40 p.m.

It has been my experience at networking events and family gatherings alike that adults love to ask you what your absolute dream job is. If you could work anywhere in the world, doing anything, what would you do? As a student receiving a liberal arts education, I’ve found that inquiring minds are desperate for the answer.

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Letter: The Pro-life movement is Pro-women

By James Lopez · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:59 p.m.

The late Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, a feminist and an accomplished American historian wrote in her article, Abortion: A War on Women that the legalization of abortion begins as a war on women because not only does it break the “binding tie between women and the children they conceive” but also because “it tells them that in order to be worthy, they must become like men...which effectively means securing freedoms from their bodies and, especially, from children.”  In her article, The Feminist Case Against Abortion, Serrin M.

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GUEST COLUMN: A call for daily resistance to rape

By Amanda Stephens · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:16 p.m.

Rape is a universally-known parasite that is afflicting our campus and must be squelched. We must acknowledge that beyond the most recently reported rapeshttp://www.idsnews.com/article/2016/04/sunday-morning-rape-reported-to-iupd-happened-in-the-street jekrthat occurred during Little 500 weekend — each committed by multiple men on a single female victim — men have also been victims. Last October, a video circulated around the world https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/08/indiana-university-frat-suspended-after-video-surfaces-of-apparent-hazing-sex-act/ jekr http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3264436/Indiana-University-fraternity-suspended-graphic-video-sexual-hazing-leaked.html jekr that showed a male student at the Alpha Tau Omega house who seemed to have been forced to perform oral sex on a woman while ATO members cheered.

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COLUMN: Cruzin' toward losin'

By Zack Chambers · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:10 p.m.

Cruzin’ Towards Losin’ Recent events have led me to write something not often heard in Bloomington; Donald Trump makes a good point.

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Letter: Re: “Hillary Clinton has no soul”

By Eduardo Salas · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:09 p.m.

IDS opinion columnist Therin Showalter has no brain – or at least, that’s what one might write of his scorching hot takes on Hillary Clinton using the same argumentative finesse employed in his two 500-word Reddit comments mysteriously published in the Indiana Daily Student. I understand there are people who have legitimate policy differences with Hillary Clinton.

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Letter: James Benedict's photo & Erica Gibson's story re. Slut Walk, 'Feminism Matters'

By Hiromi Yoshida · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:09 p.m.

While I commend IDS staff for a provocatively impactful front page layout for the April 22 issue of the print edition of the Indiana Daily Student , I have observed the problematic juxtaposition of James Benedict’s photograph with its accompanying caption for Erica Gibson’s story “Feminism Matters: Slut Walk protests rape culture and promotes changing the perception of consent.” Specifically, the caption beginning, “Students gather in Dunn Meadow to listen to Lisa Kwong before marching on Kirkwood Avenue during the Slut Walk on Thursday ,” would normally call for a photograph featuring Lisa Kwong, an adjunct professor at the IUB Department of English.  Contrary to reader expectation, however, the image of Professor Kwong in the Benedict photograph is out-of-focus and barely perceptible behind the large all-caps lettering that reads ‘Feminism Matters.’ At the same time, the major in-focus image is that of an unidentified white woman whose back recalls a whiteboard on which is inscribed “Consent is Sexy Mandatory.”  While a semantic equivalence based on identify politics can be constructed between the two women in the photograph, both the photograph and the caption are nevertheless problematic due to their inherent threat of reinscribing stereotypes concerning Asian-American invisibility and marginality.  Furthermore, the photograph and the caption jointly devalue the discursive authority of Asian American faculty while persistently giving feminism a white face.

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COLUMN: The privilege of the wealthy

By Rachel Miller · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:09 p.m.

In this society, wealth privilege means you get to enjoy spending your wealth in the company of other equally rich people while you ignore the millions who struggle to survive.

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Letter: Waltzing to Congress

By Brett Heinisch · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:02 p.m.

During the past campaign season, I had a chance to get to meet all of the candidates currently running to be Indiana’s ninth district’s Congressman.

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COLUMN: Thoughts on publication bias

By Jacob Worrell · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:02 p.m.

An article released in Scientific American on April 21 of this year reveals an insidious trend in the world of basic science – selectivity for positive results.

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COLUMN:​The flaw in IU’s sexual assault climate survey

By Chris Mitchell · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:02 p.m.

In fall 2014, Indiana University conducted its first-ever sexual assault climate survey. A year later, IU published the results, and President Michael McRobbie described how the survey’s “sobering” findings would be used to guide the University’s fight against sexual violence going forward.

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