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Contract questioned

By Jimmy King · Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012

Detroit Tigers fans were given reprieve from an unlikely source after the news came that Victor Martinez will not play in 2012.

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Views on weed now shifting

By Patrick Seick · Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012

“So what we get drunk, so what we smoke weed, we’re just havin’ fun and we don’t care who sees!” This is the opening line of the popular song “Young, Wild and Free,” from rappers Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg.

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Space exploration is a must

By Neil Weinberg · Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012

Several months ago, I used this space to make a case that the United States should commit to sending a man to Mars by the end of the decade.

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Unions versus right-to-work

By Chris Hoitash · Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012

Unions are a facet many people living in Michigan are tied to. The state has dealt with them since the New Deal, when the Roosevelt Administration finally allowed the unions to represent workers free of corporate obstruction.

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Super Bowl Sunday

By Jimmy King · Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

You cannot look at the modern era of football without first acknowledging the prowess and dominance of the New England Patriots.

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Egyptian workers seek social equality

By Clement Daly · Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012

One year after the outbreak of the Egyptian Revolution, millions of workers and students took to the streets throughout Egypt to protest the dictatorship of the U.S.-backed military junta, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), and demand the ouster of its head, General Mohamed Hussein Tantawi.

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Greek Life offers advantages

By Patrick Seick · Sunday, Jan. 29, 2012

I compete for the Eastern Michigan University forensics team. As a result, I meet people from all over the country who share a love for interpretation, critical analysis and communication in general.

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NSOAs help incoming students get acclimated to EMU campus

By Jesse Peck · Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012

As many know, orientation is a pretty big deal here at Eastern Michigan University. It’s an intense four-day experience that helps acclimate incoming students to their new surroundings while also giving them a chance to bond with fellow students.

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Obama being attacked

By James Tatum · Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012

If you’ve been listening to the GOP hopefuls for the presidency you might think President Obama is not only a terrible commander-in-chief (who should launch a strike on Iran immediately), but somebody who’s carried out a massacre of the business community. We’ve heard from Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) about President Obama’s “job-killing” overhaul of the health care industry, and former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA) has warned us about the assailants working at the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s commonly phrased by both the Republican Party and the U.S.

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Dashboard measures the state of the state

By Chris Hoitash · Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012

Jan. 18, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder presented his first State of the State Address. Unfortunately, he not declaring the name redundant and in need of change, he did say that us Michiganders are “…in a crisis unmatched in the 60 plus years of our state.” Michigan became a state officially in 1837, so technically we’ve been a state for 174 years.

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Double standards in privacy

By Neil Weinberg · Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012

In recent years, we’ve talked a lot more about privacy than we used to. It might be the PATRIOT Act, the Internet or Ron Paul behind the surge in discourse about it, but it’s there. The idea of a constitutionally guaranteed right to privacy is found in the Third and Fourth Amendments.

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Is Ron Paul the perfect challenger?

By James Tatum · Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012

Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) and his candidacy for the presidency have reached a point of such popularity amongst conservatives, libertarians and even some liberals that you’d think he was a candidate for canonization as well. I might have invested my enthusiasm with the senator from Illinois in the last race to the White House, but I was still enthralled by Paul and his book “The Revolution.” Honest is a word I would have used to describe the Texan, a descriptor I don’t often afford to politicians.

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