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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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COLUMN: Want to stop abortions? Teach sex ed

By Neeta Patwari · Monday, April 18,2016 10:16 p.m.

During the Planned Parenthood trials, Republican Representative Jason Chaffertz pointed to an incorrectly labeled graph and stated that the number of abortions performed by planned parenthood had increased between 2006 and 2013.

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COLUMN: The faces on our money

By Zack Chambers · Monday, April 18,2016 10:16 p.m.

Does Andrew Jackson deserve to be on the twenty dollar bill? He was a slave owner and killed countless Native Americans in his quest for Manifest Destiny.  That being said, the man was so instrumental in forging our modern conception of democracy that his name is now an adjective for it: Jacksonian democracy. Perhaps the more appropriate question is whether or not he should be stripped of this placement today.  The removal of past honors is a complex subject.  When statues of dictators are felled in foreign countries, nearly all Americans celebrate alongside the newly liberated.  However, when the glorification of controversial figures in America is brought up for review, the issue is much less two dimensional.

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COLUMN: Hillary Clinton has no soul

By Therin Showalter · Monday, April 18,2016 10:16 p.m.

I don't often agree with Republicans, but when I do it's because we know that Hillary Clinton is a soulless, power-hungry politician whose presidency would hold America back from its greatest potential.

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COLUMN: Protect transparency in the data republic

By Hussain Ather · Sunday, April 17,2016 7:20 p.m.

Knowing is half the battle, and, when it comes to privacy and technology, the other half might be what you don’t know. In the wake of the Panama Papers leak, people have raised concerns about how much we should know about data.

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COLUMN: The 'people exploit'

By Samaan Shahsavar · Sunday, April 17,2016 7:18 p.m.

When it comes to computer security, people are the gaping hole for hackers to exploit. Believe it or not, pretty sophisticated technologies exist to protect our data. The encryption algorithms available are well tested and require grossly impractical amounts of resources to breach. Virus detection and spam blocking are at all-time highs as well.

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COLUMN: Both sides are playing politics

By Zack Chambers · Sunday, April 17,2016 6:10 p.m.

On Thursday Senate minority leader Harry Reid held a press conference in front of the Supreme Court building telling Republicans to do their job. This begs the question of what exactly is Senate Republicans’ job?

EDITORIAL: Lil 5 do's and don'ts

By Editorial Board · Thursday, April 14,2016 6:40 p.m.

DO: Listen to the races on the radio Even if you cannot shell out the $25 to go see the race in person—because let’s be honest, every $25 counts when you owe IU upwards of $20k—you should at least consider listening to the race on the radio.

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COLUMN: Shoot for the stars

By Jessica Karl · Thursday, April 14,2016 6:40 p.m.

On Tuesday English physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced that they’re investing billions of dollars to send a fleet of robot spacecraft to Alpha Centuri, the nearest star system. These robots are tiny– think transformers.

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COLUMN: This is your brain on drugs (according to neuroscience)

By Jay Keche · Thursday, April 14,2016 6:40 p.m.

The phrase “this is your brain on drugs” may conjure up images of eggs frying thanks to a classic anti-drugs ad campaign, but neuroscience has recently shown that this is far from the truth.  A team of researchers led by Dr. David Nutt at Imperial College London recently published the first images of brains on the psychedelic drug lysergic acid diethylamide, better known as LSD, in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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COLUMN: Women get a consolation prize on Equal Pay Day

By Maggie Eickhoff · Wednesday, April 13,2016 9:13 p.m.

The second United States memorial dedicated specifically to women was made official on this year’s Equal Pay Day, April 12. The Atlantic reports that the site is the newly renamed Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument.

EDITORIAL: Panama Papers are a bigger deal than you think

By Editorial Board · Tuesday, April 12,2016 10:24 p.m.

If you haven’t heard of the Panama Papers or don’t know what they mean, then you’ve seriously misjudged the gravity of the situation. You see, it turns out that the stereotypical trope of rich people hiding away all of their money in a “Swiss bank account” is actually true, except the accounts happen to be in Panama. The world’s richest and most powerful people “invest” their money in fake business in order to avoid taxation.

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