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Letter to the Editor | Marijuana’s benefits: Blazing the trail to legalization

By Staff Writer | April 21, 2015

Here at Miami, we are pretty much all capable of reading. We can sit down and look at a simple sentence and glean enough information from the words on the page to get an idea of what the writer meant. Especially when an idea is explicitly and obviously outlined. So already, at the ripe young age of 20, we are smarter than the 535 congressmen that run our country. Exhibit A: the 1970 Controlled Substances Act.

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Diverse opinions, backgrounds make for a richer classroom experience

By Staff Writer | April 16, 2015

As I sit in my English Literature class discussing "Uncle Tom's Cabin," I can't help but feel as though there is something a little too comfortable about discussing literature depicting the outrageous cruelty of slavery in a classroom constituted of students and one professor who all have one thing in common: whiteness. Diversity is something that is oftentimes denoted as an enrollment statistic that can be found somewhere on a college's respective website. Some skim over the information without a thought, and for others it invokes some degree of concern, or at least of interest.

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Letter to the Editor | Would you rather make an impact or make it big?

By Staff Writer | April 16, 2015

As we reach the end of the semester, many anxious seniors have questions and uncertainty nagging at the back of their brains. What now? Do I dive head first into that impressive company? Do I take the offer from the firm I interned with? Do I go to more school? Do I take a year or two to work for Ameri-Corps, the Peace-Corps or a another charitable non-profit? Do I spend the rest of my life working for an organization like that?

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Journalistic failures in Rolling Stone article hurt rape survivors’ reputations, not just the magazine’s

By Staff Writer | April 14, 2015

I remember hitting the share button on my Facebook in November for the Rolling Stone article "A Rape on Campus." As an aspiring journalist myself, going through Sabrina Rubin Erdely's brilliant, detailed writing that was shining the national spotlight on an important issue through the harsh reality of Jackie's account, I was stunned in amazement thinking to myself "she got it right." When the story went under investigation a few days later, I went into denial because I wanted the story to be right. Instead, she got it very wrong.

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Get educated through social media

By Staff Writer | April 14, 2015

More than likely you're old enough to vote, right? You're a smart student, you try to stay informed on current events, you check Google news every now and then. That's definitely more than your friends back home (Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, etc.).

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