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LETTER: New arts leader named

Friday, June 3,2016 11:19 a.m.

I have always had a special affinity for art in places where art “isn’t supposed to be.” Certainly, most of us enjoy an afternoon browsing a gallery or museum, but there is something really nice about finding art in unexpected places.

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LETTER: BPD sweeping a sexual assault under the rug

Wednesday, June 1,2016 5:59 p.m.

Did you know that Bloomington’s Police Department will not investigate an incident if it occurred outside of City limits, regardless of how serious the alleged crime?

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LETTER: IUSA

By Nick Laszlo · Thursday, May 5,2016 6:20 p.m.

Nobody cares about IUSA anymore. The average voting rate for the student body is now at less than 15%, and the voting ballot is now even easily accessible online.

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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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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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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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Letter: Send in the Marine

By Brett Heinisch · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:19 p.m.

I have spent the past three years at IU studying politics. During my time there I was able to meet, work with, and campaign for Congressman Todd Young.

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Letter: Choosing a major

By Gerhard Glomm · Tuesday, April 19,2016 8:18 p.m.

A bright ambitious student the other day asked what she could do with an econ major. To her, the path to a good career seemed more clear cut with a degree from a professional school.

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Letter: Single-sex facilities

By Joe Linksy · Tuesday, April 12,2016 10:17 p.m.

I was recently in a discussion regarding Indiana Senate Bill 35, which criminalizes using the wrong gendered bathroom.

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Letter: Response to Therin Showalter

By David A. Crum · Tuesday, April 12,2016 10:17 p.m.

Dear Therin, I read the article, “Modern American Christians ...,” and appreciated the challenge to show equal concern for all sin, not just sexual sin.

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Letter: SB No. 35

By Victoria Gee · Tuesday, April 12,2016 10:14 p.m.

I’ve recently learned about a bill that is waiting to be passed senate bill 35. I don’t think that anyone should support it because it is simply ridiculous to monitor the restroom use of others.  This bill states that it would prevent transgender from using the same restroom as the one they identify with.

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Letter: Senate Bill 14

By Courtney Sebo · Tuesday, April 12,2016 10:14 p.m.

Most of us are familiar with the Jared Fogle case involving child exploitation and child pornography.

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