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Vox Clamantis

By Matthew Pickart '13 | February 8, 2012

To the Editor: As someone who spent $25 for my first transfer term and $1,100 for my second, I feel strongly that the increase in "application processing" fees for transfer terms is highly restrictive.

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Mehring: Stopping the Komen Juggernaut

By Adam Mehring | February 8, 2012

When I first learned that the Susan G. Komen foundation would no longer be funding breast cancer-related health services offered by Planned Parenthood, my initial feeling was one of excitement not because I supported the decision (not in any way imaginable), but because I foresaw the incredible backlash that would certainly occur.

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Blair: Crushing Consumption

By Peter Blair | February 7, 2012

I recently had a conversation with one of my friends about the L.L. Bean boots I was wearing. He told me how much he disliked the popularity of Bean Boots, because you could buy essentially the same boots for much cheaper at some other store.

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Weinberg: Bad Blood

By ETHAN Weinberg | February 7, 2012

Earlier this term, activist and playwright Larry Kramer visited campus as a Montgomery Fellow, sharing his experiences of leadership in the LGBTQ community.

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Casler: The Case Against the Israel Lobby

By Don Casler | February 6, 2012

With the primary season heating up and a general election looming, America stands at something of a foreign policy crossroads, having just limped out of Iraq but with boots still on the ground in an increasingly hopeless war in Afghanistan.

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Schwartz: Debate Frenzy

By Benjamin Schwartz | February 5, 2012

Adrenaline-pumping music pulses in the background. Cameras pan around the room, capturing the gaudy red, white and blue graphics projected on the walls, zooming in and out on the applauding audience, sweeping across the candidates as if running down a high-five line, the same shot used to build excitement at the beginning of basketball games.

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Yang: Rethinking Fairy Tales

By Lorelei Yang | February 1, 2012

As French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr once wrote, "The more things change, the more they stay the same." The literary tradition's unfortunate encouragement of toxic relationships is a prime example of this.

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Ouellette: A Tactic of Deception

By Torrese Ouellette | February 1, 2012

Following the publication of Andrew Lohse's recent column ("Telling the Truth," Jan. 25), many critics decided not to focus on his actual arguments or experiences but instead chose to rehash the mistakes he made in his past or attribute the abuse he claimed to suffer in the Greek system to his own weakness of conviction.

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Niedbala: Finding Common Ground

By Anna Niedbala | January 31, 2012

Serrin Foster, president of the pro-life organization Feminists for Life, declares in her landmark speech "The Feminist Case Against Abortion" that "abortion is a reflection that our society has failed to meet the needs of women." Let me set something straight.

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Pedde: Buffett's Taxes

By Jonathan Pedde | January 31, 2012

During his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama stated that "Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary." This statement echoed an op-ed that Buffett wrote in The New York Times last August.

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