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By Marie MacCune
April 7, 2015
Filed under Campus News, Local News, News, Politics
With a budget proposal by the Republican Party poised to cut $150 billion in financial aid funding, students across the country have joined together under the Save Student Aid coalition.
University of Massachusetts students,...
By Stefan Herlitz
October 30, 2013
Filed under Columns, Opinion
Statistically speaking, you probably support gay marriage, the right to an abortion in the first trimester, paid sick and maternity leave and a higher national minimum wage—all socially liberal positions. But you also are likely to support offshore drilling, the death penalty and getting rid of affirmative action. You may prefer one party over the o...
September 24, 2013
By Rane McDonough
September 12, 2013
Filed under Columns, Opinion
During the 2012 presidential election, candidate Mitt Romney caught a lot of flak for saying in a 2008 Op-Ed for the New York Times that he would let the city of Detroit go bankrupt. And today, under President Barack Obam...
By Nathan Fatal
October 24, 2012
Filed under Archives
In an election season characterized by gaffes and statist ranting from both sides of the aisle, it came as no surprise to me that in the Oct. 3 presidential debate, President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney claimed to have...
By Mike Tudoreanu
April 13, 2012
Filed under Columns, Opinion
“You do not have a right to enforce your morality on other people.”
This is a statement often heard in conversations about any political issue that can be phrased in moral terms. One side will say that something is immoral, and the other side will claim that...
By Harrison Searles
February 22, 2012
Filed under Columns, Opinion
The recent brouhaha regarding the Catholic Church and its related missions being forced to provide contraception as part of the health insurance that it must provide, a change against which its magisterium has taken a vocal op...
By Gavin Beeker
November 9, 2011
Filed under Columns, Opinion
The word “republic” comes from the Latin phrase “res publica”, meaning literally “the public thing,” but better translated as “the public affair” or interest. As a term to describe our government, it is so much...
By Emily Felder
October 26, 2011
Filed under Columns, Opinion
Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 release of “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” was more than the satirization of U.S. and U.S.S.R. relations during the Cold War; it was a driving force of social...
