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The status quo doesn’t appear out of thin air.
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The status quo doesn’t appear out of thin air.
This year is the 125th anniversary of the first year that women attended this University.
Last week in The Plainsman, a columnist wrote an opinion piece equating the Southern Poverty Law Center with violent extremist hate groups in America. In his opinion piece he shamelessly compares the people who spend their energies revealing hate to the people who spend their energies spreading it. He dramatically ends by saying, “it’s time to recognize the Southern Poverty Law Center for what it is.” Let’s take a look at what this is.
For students living with mental illness, getting through the day can seem like an overwhelming task —let alone the entire semester.
Emily Hale
As President Donald Trump took office almost a month ago, it was reasonably expected that he would try to undo much of former President Obama’s legacy.
The top of the manila folder read “Please Return to Engineering Student Services." These were the boldface printed words I read over and over again in my head as I stared down at my academic file. As many times as I had visited Engineering Student Services on the first floor of Shelby, this time my folder was not to be returned to the office I once frequented.
Donald Trump secured the magic number of 270 electoral votes to secure the Presidency. Hillary Clinton fell short of 270, but received over two million more individual votes than Trump. This election is one of few where the popular vote winner did not win the electoral vote and the raw vote gap in this case is larger than any other instance where the winner did not obtain the popular and electoral votes.
Bipartisanship has long been a respected component of American politics.
This election is unprecedented and unparalleled to few - if any other - presidential election in American history. One candidate is extremely overqualified to serve as Commander of Chief and the other is overwhelmingly underqualified to step up to the challenges that surround serving as the next president in 2016.