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Letter: Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby!

By Jasmine Knowles · Tuesday, April 12,2016 10:12 p.m.

Or perhaps let’s talk about rape, because well, they are different. Since it is Sexual Assault Awareness month, and colleges across the country are attempting to exude a Culture of Care, I want to weigh in on the topic.

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Letter: Pay to pee Bill

By Haley Hawkins · Tuesday, April 12,2016 10:12 p.m.

I really need to know why Indiana legislators are so worried about who poops next to who? With everything else going on in our world, like perhaps the fact that Donald Trump may become president, I feel like who we poop beside does not need to be regulated. It is sad that I now feel very fortunate to have always been given the opportunity to use the restroom that I identify with, without any threat of facing charges for my choice.

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COLUMN: GOP have to give their people what they want

By Therin Showalter · Monday, April 11,2016 9:48 p.m.

I've written fairly extensively about the possibility of a brokered convention for the Republican Party this July. Given the fact that Trump would have to collect 55 percent of the remaining delegates in order to secure the nomination, I'm actually quite certain a brokered convention is going to happen.

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COLUMN: Reagan, rewritten

By Neeta Patwari · Monday, April 11,2016 9:45 p.m.

Former President Ronald Reagan’s name has become almost synonymous with the Republican party. In September 2015, his name was mentioned 45 times in the second Republican debate.

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COLUMN: Healthcare security needs to shape up

By Samaan Shahsavar · Sunday, April 10,2016 8:12 p.m.

All around the United States, hospitals now face increasingly more attacks on their technology infrastructure. On March 31, California based Alvarado Hospital Medical Center reported a “malware disruption.” Kentucky based Methodist Hospital stated on March 22 that it was operating in an “internal state of emergency” after attackers locked all the hospital data on its network.

EDITORIAL: Free speech under fire

By Editorial Board · Sunday, April 10,2016 8:11 p.m.

The presidential debate has taken a new format – side walk chalk. Across the nation universities have been battling with a new freedom of speech debate focused on chalk messages scribbled across campuses.

EDITORIAL: Moose on the Loose

By Editorial Board · Thursday, April 7,2016 7:09 p.m.

It’s a sad day when a student can’t get their fix of Chocolate Moose. And it might be a sad semester for many of us now that the building will be temporarily closed down.  The Chocolate Moose will be closing down and rebuilt to a new four-story building, according to store owner Justin Loveless.  The Editorial Board is saddened by this news, but we hope the new restaurant will be better for giving students their ice cream.

EDITORIAL: Uneasy acquaintances

By Editorial Board · Wednesday, April 6,2016 8:36 p.m.

One handshake can tell it all. The latest meeting between President Obama and President Raúl Castro began with a bungling of a greeting. The failed handshake between the two leaders showed the uneasiness that still exists between the two nations and the shaky ground that this new relationship will be resting on.

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COLUMN: New York governor provides positive

By Maggie Eickhoff · Wednesday, April 6,2016 8:24 p.m.

It is well known that parents have some of the hardest jobs in the world. The United States government compounds that by giving them the hardest time after they have a new child with one of the shortest paid leave periods in the world. Gov.

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COLUMN: Addressing the state of American politics

By Steven Aranyi · Wednesday, April 6,2016 8:24 p.m.

On Monday, April 4th, College Republicans at Indiana University held an event, where they watched a speech given by Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, on the state of American politics. At the meeting, students watched the speech, and then discussed the state of American politics, and the Republican Party.

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Letter: Pay attention to your surroundings

By Mike Farris · Tuesday, April 5,2016 8:24 p.m.

On Monday, March 28th, I got to meet a young lady driving a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee.  She drove thru a stop sign at 11th and Woodlawn and hit me.  I was driving a Kubota, you’ve seen the orange vehicles driving all over campus.  Mine had lights on and a yellow strobe light on the roof, and has a max speed of 18 mph.  She hit me in the right front wheel and passenger door, pushing me into the oncoming lane, over the curb and stopping 25 feet away on the sidewalk.  It could have been much worse; I could have been flipped, pushed into oncoming traffic or hit a pedestrian standing on the sidewalk.  I’m lucky, just bruised and very sore.  I have no idea why she did not see me, what she was doing or why she didn’t simply stop at the sign that has been there for years.  She said she was going to class, and since we are creatures of habit, she has probably been that way before. My point for all of this is that every day I see students, staff and faculty trying to do too many things at once.  Headphones, earbuds and cell phones are a major problem.  No one pays any attention to their surroundings or safety.  People walk down the middle of streets instead of being on the sidewalk two feet to the left.

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