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Is Facebook friendship truly friendship?

By Jodi F. Bullock · Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012

Not so long ago, the only way to know what a friend had for lunch was to either eat lunch with her or make a rather strange phone call. Now, all you have to do is log into Facebook and look at the status update she posted at noon.

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Debates reveal true nature of politics

By David Konarske · Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012

Last week, the final debate of the presidential election ended. This time, I decided to watch the debate in Eastern Michigan University’s Student Center after the Mock Presidential Debate ended.

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An open letter to students regarding the 2012 election

By Decky Alexander · Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012

This open letter is to all my students: the lefties, the righties, the in-betweens, the first generations, the legacies, the undecided and the undeclared, the absolutists and the atheists, the Pell granters, the parent payers, the dreamers and doers and those who dream to do.

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Mogul’s threats subvert democratic system

By Chris Hoitash · Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012

Apparently David Siegel didn’t get the memo: It’s the 21st century, not the 19th. An Oct. 9 Huffington Post article said, “David Siegel, the founder and CEO of giant timeshare company Westgate Resorts, sent an opus-like email to his workers, railing against one-percent bashing and arguing that the president’s reelection would “threaten your job.”

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Obama should steal Romney’s idea to limit deductions

By James Tatum · Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012

“Senator Clinton has a different approach,” said the slender Chicagoan to the Stepford Wife. “She believes that we have to force people who don’t have health insurance to buy it, otherwise there will be a lot of people who don’t get it,” he continued as he methodically slashed her ideas. “…And they may charge people who already don’t have healthcare fines or have to take it out of their paycheck, and that I don’t think is helping those without health insurance.”

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Pot’s no different from alcohol, legalize it

By Jodi F. Bullock · Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has denounced marijuana legalization initiatives that will appear on ballots this November in Colorado, Oregon and Washington on the grounds that marijuana is a dangerous drug. If the DEA wants to continue their war on marijuana because they consider it dangerous, it should also urge the prohibition of alcohol for the same reason.

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America is not ‘best’ country

By Patrick Seick · Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012

Harvey Milk, a politician from San Francisco and subject of the biopic “Milk,” once remarked, “Politics is theatre.” This sentiment is exemplified in the debates featuring President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. If one were to attempt to find a theme in these charades, it might be this: America is the greatest country in the world, no matter what anyone says.

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Criticism of political posts risky

By Casey Wooley · Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012

Scouring through posts on Facebook is a common trend in today’s world. Depending on the news of the day, oftentimes themes quickly emerge that dominate others.

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Dream Act a bad idea, gives scholarships to wrong people

By David Konarske · Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012

An Oct. 8 article by The Eastern Echo explained the work Student Body President Matthew Norfleet has done to further an Eastern Michigan University “Dream Act.” This policy would give EMU Foundation scholarships to the children of illegal immigrants because they have to pay out-of-state tuition.

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