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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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COLUMN: Mississippi finally joined the rest of the world

By Neeta Patwari · Monday, April 25,2016 7:46 p.m.

When political analysts talk about how key certain states are in election, they rarely mention New England or the South because while these regions of the United States have a large number of electoral votes, they are reliably Democrat or Republican. It makes no sense for a Democrat to campaign in New York, where they have won since 1992, and it makes just as little sense for a Republican to campaign in Mississippi.

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COLUMN: College crunch time

By Jordan Riley · Sunday, April 24,2016 9:03 p.m.

As a senior, the number one question you get asked is “what are your plans for the future.” And whether or not you have a job lined up, most often the real answer is that you have no idea.  The pressure is on for recent graduates.

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COLUMN: Fix the broadband industry

By Samaan Shahsavar · Sunday, April 24,2016 9:03 p.m.

It’s not a secret. The broadband industry in the United States is horribly broken. The Federal Communications Commission, or the FCC, reports complaints about data caps at an all-time high, up to 8,000 from 800 in the last half of 2015.

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COLUMN: CRISPR – the hottest tool in biotech

By Jay Keche · Thursday, April 21,2016 6:35 p.m.

Gene editing is the hottest new technique in biotechnology. Even though biologists have been editing the genes of organisms for the past two decades, a hot new development has revolutionized the way it is accomplished. This breakthrough is known as “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats” – or CRISPR for short. Unlike older methods of editing genes – which could cost 1000s of dollars – biologists are able to edit the genes of nearly any organism for about $30 using CRISPR. CRISPR was originally a mechanism that bacteria used to defend themselves from their enemies.

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