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Internships not required for job

Internships not required for job

Margaret Upton, Staff Writer May 2, 2014

The Association of Higher Education Careers Services awarded Enterprise Rent-A-Car in 2013 for developing an advertising campaign for the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Graduate program. Photo courtesy of ahecs.ie. Enterprise...

DS View: Racism

Will Beaton, Editor-in-Chief May 2, 2014

Donald Sterling is a racist. On a side note, he also owns the Los Angeles Clippers. You wouldn’t think a person who owns an incredibly successful professional basketball team that only has two white...

America not founded on Christianity

America not founded on Christianity

Mike Rauser, Staff Writer May 2, 2014

There are many who will claim that America was founded as a Christian nation or was founded on Christian values. This is demonstrably false. The founding fathers — while some may have been raised Christian...

College provides life lessons

Mary Ochs, Staff Writer May 2, 2014

As young adults, we have the mind-set that we’re on top of the world. We may think we own the town we came from, we may believe we own the night or even be under the impression that nothing can touch...

Party carefully, Springfesters

Steph Gartner, Staff Writer May 2, 2014

This week already is the beginning of May — warmer weather and the end of the semester. Both of these are two major components of the famous Springfest that occurs the weekend before finals. Shirts are...

Obamacare still far from goal

Obamacare still far from goal

Mike Rauser, Staff Writer April 28, 2014

President Obama has been criticized for many things, from foreign policy to defense cuts — just about everything he has done as president. Most of the criticism comes from Republicans, but even Democrats...

Group projects never worth the work

Group projects never worth the work

Mary Ochs, Staff Writer April 28, 2014

There are two words that make every student cringe: group projects. I don’t know if professors are aware of what a terrible experience group projects are for students,  but if they aren’t, they certainly...

Harrassment should always be reported

Steph Gartner, Staff Writer April 28, 2014

This past week, I came across an article titled, “Why You Shouldn’t Report Sexual Harassment.” Initially, I thought it was going to be a parody article by the famous parody news source, The Onion....

DS View: Excommunication

Sam Wigness, Features Editor April 28, 2014

It’s finally time to put four years of communications program classes into practice, and if this program has taught me anything it is to think critically and communicate genuinely. Honestly, I’m worried...

Letter to the editor

April 28, 2014

Radioactive waste, NORM waste, “hot” filter socks, illegal dumping . . . Many attention-grabbing headlines have been written in the past year. What’s it all about? What do these headlines really...

New Glass causes public unease

New Glass causes public unease

Margaret Upton, Staff Writer April 25, 2014

Graphic courtesy of stopthecyborgs.org. Google’s newest and “best” was put on a pedestal and sold one day only on April 15th — Google Glass. Google won’t divulge exactly how many units were...

DS View: Riots

Will Beaton, Editor-in-Chief April 25, 2014

There’s been much talk — all of it hostile toward one group or another — about the “riots” at the University of Minnesota over the weekend of the NCAA Men’s Hockey Tournament. I visited my...

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