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The Indiana Daily Student

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COLUMN: All eyes on the Indiana primary

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The Indiana Primary takes place on May 3, 2016, and the entire nation will be watching what happens on the Republican side of the aisle. As the primary season goes down to the wire, Sen.


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COLUMN: Baby business practices

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A same-sex couple from Ontario, Canada, recently filed suit against an Augusta, Ga. sperm bank after they received notice of information they did not have at the time of their sperm collection: their donor has schizophrenia and a criminal record, and he had lied about the amount of higher education he had completed.  Typically, couples or individuals who choose to use sperm or egg donors spend a long time researching their options.




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COLUMN: Journalism in the information age

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I recently came across a bit of commentary in the New York Times article "For news outlets squeezed from the middle, it's bend or bust" about a topic I’ve always held a fairly firm position on, the role of journalism in the information age.




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Letter: Send in the Marine

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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'

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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

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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?