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HAGEN: From dictator to educator

By Daily Free Press Admin April 13, 2011

“Boston University has denied it offered a teaching job to the deposed president of the Ivory Coast, who refused to leave his post after an election in the fall and plunged his country into civil...

Haungs: Equal Opportunity

By Daily Free Press Admin April 13, 2011

Equal opportunity is a phrase that has been thrown around since the days of the civil rights and women’s liberation movements. African-Americans and women throughout the nation proclaimed that every...

MAHDI: Retail therapy

By Daily Free Press Admin April 12, 2011

Exactly 50 years ago yesterday, Russia's Yuri Gagarin became the first man to be catapulted into space. Russia’s frigidity in global affairs was temporarily forgotten as the whole world reveled in this...

FONTANA: Silly school, learning’s for kids

By Daily Free Press Admin April 11, 2011

Dear School, You’re getting in the way of just about everything: spring, fun, the future, breathing, health, joy, life and all that is good in the world. You are but a weapon of the hegemonic powers...

RACKHAM: Housing Sham

By Daily Free Press Admin April 11, 2011

Congratulations, freshmen! You’ve made it through your first housing registration. Ready to cry? Well, if you’re not crying yet, this will help: it only gets marginally better when you’re a sophomore....

O’DONNELL: Chick fight

By Daily Free Press Admin April 11, 2011

All anyone can talk about this week is how close the country came to witnessing a government shutdown, as they should because a shutdown would have been nothing short of a disaster. Luckily, Democrats...

HAGEN: 99 problems, being rich ain’t one

By Daily Free Press Admin April 6, 2011

There comes a time in every person’s life when they must decide who they want to be. Since turning the big 2-2 last week and coming to terms with the imminent end of my college career, I have decided...

HAUNGS: History repeating?

By Daily Free Press Admin April 6, 2011

In light of the pending 2012 presidential election in the close distance and the conundrum of who will be opposing President Barack Obama, it’s worth wondering if the energy gathered from the 2008 victory...

MAHDI: Thriller bi-winner

By Daily Free Press Admin April 5, 2011

T he idea of worship is seen as confined to conventional religious practice. Yet, maybe it is time that we broadened the idea to meaning an expression of awe and adoration for the secular world as well....

FONTANA: Destination procrastination

By Daily Free Press Admin April 5, 2011

All aboard who’s going aboard. Tickets, please! It’s just about time we get on to the Dawdling Express, set to leave Lollygag Station at approximately never p.m. This train is on an every stop route...

RACKHAM: Don’t light my fire

By Daily Free Press Admin April 4, 2011

It’s a cold, frigid night and the air is still. I’m walking down an empty street when I see a light turn on in a closed department store. My head tells me not to walk any closer but my feet won’t...

O’DONNELL: The fish in the GOP sea

By Daily Free Press Admin April 4, 2011

Things are looking grim for the Republican Party. It seems to me that everyone is complaining about the state of the government lately, yet no real potential presidential candidate is committing to change....

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