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COLUMN: Be careful to condemn the act of negotiating with terrorists

By Daniel Kilcullen · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:09 p.m.

The final seven months of John Ridsdel’s life were sporadically documented via video camera, but the spine-chilling home videos were not of the sort that we’re accustomed to. In Sept.

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.

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.

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.

Letter: Paying for my music

By Simba Kenyatta · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:09 p.m.

The recent death of Dave Baker brought up a lot of feelings in me besides the sadness of his passing.

EDITORIAL: It's just money

By Editorial Board · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:03 p.m.

Get back to the real issues.

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.

COLUMN: Women's rights and overpopulation

By Tristan Fitzpatrick · Tuesday, April 26,2016 9:02 p.m.

Four years ago, the global population exceeded seven billion people for the first time. The global population is definitely not expected to stop there.

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.

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.