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Presidential advisers raise ethical concerns

By Sean Podell · Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009

When a new president takes office in the United States, I want that person to do well. It doesn’t matter if he/she is a Republican or Democrat, as long as the country benefits. This current administration, however, has me wondering what the agenda is.

Obama needs to focus on quality education

By Jenice Pettibone · Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009

President Barack Obama promised America change, and now he’s threatening to deliver it in the form of longer school days and shortened summer vacations.

Live, online course options needed

By Erin Gullekson · Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009

These days, there are many different ways to get an education. There is the traditional method of sitting in a classroom, there are private teachers whom you can pay to teach a specific skill, and then there are online classes, which seem to be growing in popularity.

Letter: Halle labs should require clean-up

By Kaylan Kimbrell · Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009

I am a student worker at one of the computer labs in Halle Library. I have been here about three years and have witnessed a lot of sick people using the computers on a daily basis.

Several thousand people marched peacefully across Pittsburgh in protest of the G-20 Summit.

Letter: Idealism battered at G-20 summit protest

By Andrew Stefan · Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009

Between September 24th and 26th I was in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania covering the G-20 Summit resistance movement as an independent journalist.

Give Cookie Monster back his snack

By Hannah Schwab · Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009

My love for PBS and its entertaining yet educational characters is why I have jumped up on my soap box, albeit a little late, in defense of one loveable blue monster: Cookie Monster.

GOP options: Change ideas, switch parties

Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009

The GOP is SOL without either serious reform to its platform or some new ideas that don’t turn away voters. Failing this reform, a new party will eventually fill the political void, as has been done before.

Ethics shifting in journalism

By Nick Shlain · Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009

Down is the new up. Nazi is the new black. Jon Stewart is the new Walter Cronkite. No, really. In a Time magazine poll this summer, 44 percent of Americans voted Stewart America’s best newsman.

Letter: Stop buying what sex sells

By Amber Bauerle · Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009

My attention was brought to something very disturbing the other day. The Eastern Michigan University hockey team has new posters for the 2009-2010 season. Rather than displaying pictures of the team or coaches, they depict our female classmates in nothing more than hockey jerseys and heels.

Michigan’s auto industry: We need to just get over it

By Chris Hoitash · Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009

Michigan has a rather long history. Various things have taken prominence in this state’s history. First and foremost was the fur trade, almost the sole reason for French exploration of the area, beyond finding the non-existent waterway to the East Indies.

U.S. Constitution needs 28th Amendment ensuring all Congress members are elected

By Neil Weinberg · Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009

Since the passage of the Bill of Rights, the United States Constitution has been amended just 17 times.

EMU students need food service at McKenny

By Erin Gullekson · Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009

A few years ago the new Student Center was built and food services in McKenny Hall ceased to exist. This worked out fine for people who parked near the Student Center or had classes in a nearby building, but what about the people at the front of campus? As a student who has all of her classes in the front of campus, I find this to be very annoying.

Where were budget critics during Bush years?

By Donald Stuckey II · Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009

I have a very simple question for many of these so-called conservatives who are currently protesting President Obama and the choices he has made to help get this economy back on the right track: Where have you people been?

State budget cuts add to financial aid woes

By Hannah Schwab · Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009

As the semester kicks off there is one thing we can all relate to: the stress that comes from paying for the classes we just started taking. I know when my tuition bill was e-mailed to me this summer, my heart skipped a beat, and not in a good way.

Texting both blessing and curse

By Erin Gullekson · Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009

Texting – it’s a handy little technology that many of us use from time to time when it’s inconvenient to call. But sometimes I feel like people rely so much on texting that they forget the rules of common courtesy.

Take Obama, please

By Nick Shlain · Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

As we go to print, America remains in limbo. A country politically divided was promised “change” and told to “believe” – and atheist democrats bought that crap.

Recent Echo column based on political lies

By Jim Cavanaugh · Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

Something about Adam Holmes’ Sept. 8 piece, “Obama wants kids’ minds washed clean,” rubbed me the wrong way. At first I couldn’t quite place it, but then it occurred to me: Nearly the entire column was built around a series of lies.

Letter: Digital lifestyle not causing epidemic of civic rudeness

By Stephen Vela · Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

I would like to voice a response to the article titled “A rude new world” under B5’s Opinions.

Not all ideas are big

Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009

Over the course of two years writing for the Echo, I have had many ideas for articles. Not all of them were long enough to make an actual article, but I believe they are still important.

A rude new world

By Jill Faulkner-Bogdan · Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009

Collectively, we do not disconnect ourselves long enough to say, “thank you” or “you’re welcome” when a door is held open for us, “excuse me” when we bump into others in the hall, or “bless you” when someone sneezes. We have all become too technologically involved for the most common of courtesies.