Makenna Sidle: Online Editor
Pro & Con: CON
Cyberbullying. The mention of the word throws the media into frenzy, immediately covering it to an extent that the families and the people involved are hurt irreparably. It enables bullying offline. Yet perhaps the saddest part about cyberbullying is that it is completely preventable.
Cyberbullying is avoidable: the most obvious [...]

Elaine Ejigu: Staff Writer
Pro & Con: PRO
When a Missouri mom created a fake Myspace account for the purpose of harassing a thirteen-year-old girl in 2006, the girl, Megan, ended up committing suicide three weeks before her fourteenth birthday. The offender, Lori Drew, was indicted in 2008 and acquitted in 2009.
The 1942 Chaplinsky vs. New [...]

Marcus Kahn: Associate Managing Editor
The Kindle will not destroy the world. This will not be some Fahrenheit 451 situation, where death-squads roll around torching books and taking away librarians in unmarked Astrovans. The bottom line is the Amazon Kindle is an expensive commodity (now 260 dollars). The vast majority of people do not feel the [...]

Josh Irvine: Staff Writer
The Kindle, or E-book, is an amazing invention and a great technological push forward. It allows readers to obtain novels quickly and without exerting any energy. It stores two hundred books with its unbelievable storage system. And, the inventors made the Kindle experience as similar as it could possibly get to an [...]

Coleman Rainey: Staff Writer
Since 1912, the rising sun has flown on the Tibetan flag. It represents hope, strength, and the spiritual unity of a people. Now, more than ever, Tibetans need that unity. A few days ago, the Dalai Lama may have sacrificed unity for a few critical words against China.
On March 10, the Dalai [...]

Ben Winkel: Staff Writer

Two weeks ago, the Tibetan people mourned the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against the Chinese government. In 1959, the people of this region urged China to give Tibet autonomous rule. China refused, and the events that followed are now commemorated as Tibetan Uprising Day in the province. The 14th Dalai [...]