EDITORIAL: IU should use open-source textbooks
The end of the semester brings a lot of reminders to students: Grades are coming, everyone has to pack for home and students have to sell back overpriced textbooks for a fraction of what they paid.
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The end of the semester brings a lot of reminders to students: Grades are coming, everyone has to pack for home and students have to sell back overpriced textbooks for a fraction of what they paid.
Since 1882, Great Britain has burned coal in order to provide some of its power. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution through two world wars, and until April 21, 2017, power derived from coal has been used every day.
Imagine, you are walking down Kirkwood, going to your favorite bar or restaurant. It’s a busy Friday night with people all up and down the road.
Indiana House Bill 1024 is a new bill that aims to protect the right to prayer for children in the classroom. Prayer would not be enforced, but it would be protected if any student chooses to pray.
Last week, Fox News removed Bill O’Reilly, host of “The O’Reilly Factor,” from the network due to sexual harassment allegations that emerged in early April.
If you can run fast enough or throw a ball far enough, you probably won’t suffer many consequences for sexually assaulting someone if you’re punished at all.
When change needs to be made, pressure from the free press is a powerful catalyst. The ability of independent journalists to act as whistleblowers and watchdogs and to provide the public with urgent information so that members of a society can exercise personal agency — these are essential pillars of a healthy civilization, and oppressive oversight threatens their abilities to function as intended.
A lecture given by the controversial social scientist Charles Murray last week showed that even in the middle of the most contested fights, IU remains true to its core principles.
The use of sarin gas by the Assad regime in an attack on its civilian population represents a grave moral failing and departure from international law.
When someone makes a mistake, we expect them to atone for it in some way.
Indiana lawmakers recently struck down a bill raising the cigarette tax from $0.99 per pack to $1.50 per pack.
Hoosiers will have a chance in 2018 to decide if the Indiana Constitution should be amended to require a balanced budget. If passed, this amendment will mean that the Indiana General Assembly will have to collect more in revenues than it spends every year. The Editorial Board is in favor of this amendment because it will ensure that the fiscal responsibility Indiana embraces will continue long into the future.
A political organization has filed a case with the United States Supreme Court to overturn the state of Indiana’s ban on the use of robocalls, automated and prerecorded messages sent to thousands of phones at once, for political campaigns.
Right now, many Bloomington area residents are concerned with the ongoing discussions of annexation. In the past few weeks the city of Bloomington had meetings to discuss the proposed plan to incorporate nearly 10,000 acres around the outskirts of Bloomington.
As the dust settles on another IU Student Association election, it's time to step back and take a look at the student government elections process.
We’re living in the age of information and automation, and many technological advancements have created ethical questions for which the answers are not easy. Cost-benefit analyses are tricky when dealing with changes for which comparable historical examples are not available.
The Indiana Statehouse has taken initiative to encourage young people to get involved in politics.
IU Athletics Director Fred Glass introduced Archie Miller last Monday as the new coach of the men’s basketball program. Miller comes to IU from the University of Dayton where he coached the Dayton Flyers, a mid-major team that has made the NCAA tournament the past four years.
The Hippocratic oath, which is taken by all doctors, serves as a moral guideline on how to address health care in terms of their patients. One of the key tenets in the modern version of the oath is to “apply for the benefit of the sick” and that “warmth, sympathy, and understanding” all must be used to treat the person.
IU is a community that is hypothetically dedicated to equal access and accommodation for all its members. However, the Editorial Board believes that when it comes to disability access, IU, and the state of Indiana, is falling short.