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Fear is real, and many Americans revisited that fear over the weekend. Those of us who watched from 2,000 miles away as countless lives were mysteriously snuffed out in an hour and half remembered that sweaty-palmed, open-mouthed awe, that gripping horror, that complete lack of understanding that accompanies an event as rare as this. Over […]
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Ten years have passed. Many Americans remember turning on their televisions to see their land being attacked, and buildings falling to the ground and smoldering. Their hearts ached for those families who lost their loved ones. Nearly 3,000 lives were lost that day, and it shook America awake and took away the sense that it […]
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Now students in New Jersey can report their classmates by submitting anonymous tips to police officers and other anti-bullying officials. New Jersey’s elected representatives recently passed what is considered the nation’s toughest law against bullying. Spurred by the suicide of Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi a little more than a year ago, the bill contains […]
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We hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend. We know everyone here at The Signpost did. We have worked hard these first two weeks of school to make the paper have great content and great art. We have also been working hard to push our online content and become more of a multimedia-based Weber […]
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One of the biggest hindrances that is currently facing America is the ridiculous political extremism that is currently on display in Congress and across the country. There are people who would be more likely to vote for a chimpanzee than for a member of the political party they aren’t affiliated with. It seems that recently […]
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Since when were we OK with religious bigotry? No one can get away with racist discrimination in a national election. Anyone who said anything about Barack Obama’s race during the 2008 campaign was given a well-deserved proverbial crucifixion by the media. However, during this latest election, several disturbing incidents have occurred regarding discrimination amongst the […]
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No glove, no love. This simple little saying is what should become the mantra of most, if not all, sexually active individuals in today’s world. It should come as no surprise, in the world of resistant bacteria, which sexually transmitted diseases were going to become the next superbugs. In May of 2009, two cases of […]
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A new semester is upon us here at Weber State University, and with our new classes come not just learning opportunities, but endless social opportunities, as we all have seen (as if the social aspect wasn’t half our motivation to even go to college). Sure, we pay attention in new courses to the teachers’ personalities, […]
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The first day of a new semester of college is not the earth-shattering experience it was for us in elementary, junior high and even high school. Remember how, on the first day of a new school year, we’d be up an hour and a half early? Our outfits were brand-new and carefully selected for maximum […]
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What is the most troublesome issue in America today? It isn’t raising the debt ceiling to a number that sounds like it was designed by kindergartners. It isn’t the overhaul of a flawed system of education that both punishes our nation’s children and encourages squabbling between underpaid teachers and underfunded districts. And it isn’t figuring […]
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