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By Rachael Turffs College is an exciting time in a young person’s life. Parents and students alike hope for a fun, successful, and safe time away from home. For students at the University of Missouri, however, the year has taken a turn. Racism is still very much alive today, and racial tensions came to a…
By Patrick Kelley The 127-year-old National Geographic Society was recently purchased by Australian news tycoon Rupert Murdoch in a $725 million dollar deal. As a result, NatGeo will merge with 21st Century Fox to form National Geographic Partners. The deal will strengthen the organization financially—but potentially at a cost to all of us. Less than…
By Ashley Lolmaugh As of 2015, there are fewer than 3,200 tigers left in the wild. The species will be extinct in a few short decades, unless they receive necessary legal protections. 97% percent of the tiger population has been lost in the past century. Some are lost to poaching, while others fall to habitat…
By Miranda Emaus The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was first launched in 1958. At the time, measuring 729 ft long and 75 ft wide she was the largest ship to sail the Great Lakes. Unfortunately, forty years ago, the ship sunk to the bottom of Lake Superior during a severe storm killing all 29 men on…
By Patrick Kelley In a move widely expected by those following the issue, President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL Pipeline permanently. The three-foot-diameter Keystone XL was slated to cover 1,197 miles from Hardisty, Alberta’s crude oil reserves, across the Great Plains, to Steele City, Nebraska, where it would meet up with the other Keystone…
By Mary Kawa The Trans-Pacific Trade Accord has been making numerous headlines in the past few months. Also referred to as the TPP, the Trans-Pacific Trade Accord seeks to establish free trade between NAFTA countries—Canada, the United States, and Mexico—along with a select number of countries located around the Pacific Ocean. On the surface, the…
By Miranda Emaus A copyright is intended to protect a creator’s rights to use and distribution of their original work. Rightscorp has made an extortionate business model of monitoring file sharing networks to locate downloaded files and send out infringement notifications requesting payment- in hopes the recipient will settle out of court to avoid the…
By Andrew Gilroy On June 13th of this year, Texas governor Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 11, also known as the ‘Campus Carry’ law. This statute allows license holders to carry a concealed handgun on university campuses, including into school buildings. In a spirit of charity, we may assume that Abbott is attempting…
By Patrick Kelley On Thursday, October 1st, Roseburg’s Umpqua Community College was attacked by gunman Chris Harper-Mercer, for yet to be determined reasons. Nine people were killed, not counting the gunman who killed himself after the police arrived. The city of Roseburg, located in the southwestern swath of Oregon, is only slightly larger than Sault…
By Patrick Kelley Volkswagen is in big trouble. The EPA announced that many diesel Volkswagens have hidden ‘defeat devices’ that would cause their cars to restrict emissions during EPA testing, releasing up to forty times the legal amount of smog-inducing nitrogen oxide outside testing as a result. During testing, the computer software kicks and churns…
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