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Budget cuts unfairly target mining areas

When Gov. Bill Ritter announced his 2010 budget cuts Aug. 23, the big news was his $9 million draw from a cash fund established for medical marijuana. But behind that headline was a bigger story: ongoing neglect of Colorado’s resources and the communities near them.

Point/Counterpoint

Point: Politicians should get their tweet on

I’ll be the first person to admit that Twitter is not for everyone. It takes a certain kind of individual to enjoy Twitter, and no, I don’t mean 13-year-old girls.

Counterpoint: Politicians should stick to C-SPAN

From its creation to its use, Twitter is the scourge of the modern world. Apart from being a colossal waste of everyone’s time, it makes good things bad and bad things worse.

Point: Not having a degree can be limiting

Throughout high school I saw college as something that I had to do, as opposed to something I actually wanted to do. After my first year of college, I took a year off, thinking I could join the “real world” without worrying about a college degree.

Counterpoint: A degree can be a huge waste of money

A common belief among students is that, when they obtain a degree, they will earn a salary that will give them the financial means to pay their student loans back. But with the costs of higher education continuing to inflate, maybe students need to reevaluate their financial situation—and decide if college is a realistic option. 1 comment

Point: Women are succeeding, but at what cost to men?

Until the last 30 years, men have always outperformed women in higher education.
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2009 women enrolled in larger numbers, graduated at a higher rate, and maintained greater GPAs through college than men.

Counterpoint: Who cares?

According to predictions from the Department of Education, this is the year women will outnumber men 3 to 2 in college enrollment. Oh, the horror.

Point: Children should be educated, not indoctrinated

Take a guess at what word the following description defines: “A systematic effort to destroy an individual’s former loyalties and beliefs and to substitute loyalty to a new ideology or power.” Sound like your college education? Then you’re close, because this is the Encyclopedia Brittanica definition of brainwashing.

Counterpoint: School should teach, not cater to parents' whims

If you challenged teaching math in schools, you’d be called an idiot. So why do fundamentalists not get the same treatment when they challenge teaching science? A recent bill, which got shot down, would have allowed students to opt out of classes that might upset their religious sensibilities.

Editorials

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Editorial response to April Fools Issue

Since the publication of the Aprils Fools issue of the Advocate, a work of satire in the tradition of college newspapers and alternative weeklies around the country, students have coordinated a response to material in the issue they considered offensive. That content has been described as racist and inappropriate

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My final word on this

I understand many students did not find a lot of the articles funny. However, our entire April 1 issue was satire. Debating whether or not something is satirical is like debating whether something is written in English. Either it is or it isn't. Satire is not a synonym for humor. Pretty much about the only thing that's debatable about satire is whether or not it's any good. If people didn't think the satire in our April Fools Issue was any good, that's fine. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. 

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Mi ultima palabra sobre este tema

Entiendo que muchos estudiantes no le hallaron chiste a la broma. No obstante, toda la edición del 1 de abril fue una edición satírica. Y si hay estudiantes que piensan que la broma fue de muy mal gusto, yo entiendo. Cada quien tiene derecho a su opinión.

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Whining about the Prop 8 ruling avoids a real discussion

Since a federal district court overturned California’s Proposition 8, there hasn’t been a conservative candidate willing to say anything nice about the U. S. judicial system. And like all rulings that don’t end up fitting conservatives’ paradigms, the ultimate cause of Prop 8’s demise are “activist judges”: judges whose political views influence their decisions. In other words, all federal judges. Full story

Advocate Wants to Know


How do you feel about Judge Vaughn Walker declaring California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage, unconstitutional?

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Abigail Martin

Abigail Martin | Chemistry, Metro

“I’m all for it because when the Constitution was written, there wasn’t anything about being involved in people’s lives.”

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Daniel Pope

Daniel Pope | Physics, Metro

“That’s great. I think that’s something that should happen everywhere. It’s kind of bullshit for that not to be legal.”

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Justin Herrera

Justin Herrera | Accounting, Metro

“I don’t think one person should change it. The whole society should change it.”

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Melissa Thapar

Melissa Thapar | Pre-Nursing, UCD

“I didn’t really know much about it but I think it’s great. I don’t see any reason why it would be banned whatsoever.”

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Michael Christopher

Michael Christopher | Sports Sci., Metro

“I like that. The whole same-sex marriage issue—I feel like that shouldn’t be a government issue.”

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Taryn Grummer

Taryn Grummer | English Literature, UCD

“I think it’s awesome because I think it is unconstitutional. And it’s about time we move forward with the times.”

The Comment

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More troops to the Arizona border, bringing sanity to an unstable situation

Hunting for illegal immigrants along the Arizona border is not the mission of the Arizona police. They aren’t trained for it and they don’t have a national mandate for it.

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South Park turns censorship into satire and gets death threats

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are undoubtedly two of the most compelling satirists of our time. To them, almost nothing is off limits, and rightfully so. But in a “post-9/11 world,” there are apparently some things that we can’t criticize.

Guest Editorial: The lost generation

Over the last couple of years, education budgets have taken massive cuts in public funding. This is not a new trend at all, but the most recent cuts have been crippling.

The Comment: Offshore drilling is not what it's cracked up to be

I just assumed that since President Obama was a Democrat, he wasn’t for offshore drilling. So when I heard he just made a proposal to open vast areas of American coastlines to oil and natural gas drilling, it caught me off-guard.

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Assholery and inconsistency in the Catholic Church

The Catholic Church doesn’t exactly have a squeaky clean record. So it probably doesn’t come as a shock to many that the church has now done something to offend even more people.

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Releasing J.D. Salinger's manuscripts would violate a recluse's privacy

Like the football captain who wants to redefine “no” for his prom date, literary historians are arguing to preserve and maintain the 15 manuscripts found in J.D. Salinger’s safe—even though Salinger explicitly ordered the manuscripts burned in his will.

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Everybody is a little bit racist

You are all a lousy bunch of racists, and to imply otherwise would make you racist liars.

Shutting down dispensaries is a dumb plan

Medical marijuana is more than a hot topic on the news; it’s become one of Denver’s only growing industries. But with that boom, there’s been an echo of disapproval from citizens, lobbyists, and lawmakers. Once again, the current laws on the books for caregivers and dispensaries are being gone over with a fine comb.

Ask a Black guy

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Dear White Guys

Dear Black Guy, Black History Month has never bothered me. I have no problem with celebrating the history of African-America during May or March or whatever.

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T-Pain may or may not sound like Chris Tucker

What does T-Pain sound like without Auto-Tune? —Courtney, Undeclared Liberal Arts Dear Courtney, How coincidental. This exact subject actually came up at the NAACP meeting I went to last week. Barack Obama speculated that T-Pain probably sounds like the black guy in the All-State commercials.

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What do you think about white guys with cornrows?

Dear Ekram, white men should never have cornrows.