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When Will Enough be Enough?

This time it really is for the kids
When Will Enough be Enough?
When I see a picture of Chester Stiles, who was seen on tape brutally raping a then three-year-old girl, I cannot help but to react with a mixture of rage and heartbreak. My ten-hour-a-week college job allows me to spend an increased amount of time watching the national news, and it seems as if every week there is a new story about child molestation.

Glob-AL GORE-ming

The inconvenient truth about his Nobel Prize
Glob-AL GORE-ming
Al Gore recently won half of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, and I can't think of a more deserving recipient. He now joins an exalted group of true visionaries such as terrorist Yassir Arafat (Class of 1994) - one of the very few laureates directly responsible for the deaths of innocent women and children.

Central Ohio Tries To Combat Racism

Central Ohio Tries To Combat Racism
Gentle reader, Four - or perhaps, five to eight - years from now, when (or if) you graduate, you will look back at the fall season in the year of 2007 as a historic one. It was an autumn in which central Ohio campus administrators ended hate and racism. In early October The Lantern headlined with "OSU to halt bias incidents" (news article, Oct.

Modern English

Modern English
In one of the early Republican presidential candidate debates, Tom Tancredo said the following on illegal immigration: "We're talking about something that goes to the very heart of this nation: whether or not we will actually survive as a nation […] or split apart into a lot of balkanized pieces.

Killing Is Our Business. Business Is Good.

Filling a market gap, and killing people, is what Blackwater does
Killing Is Our Business. Business Is Good.
A pro-war Congress, a disintegrating White House, and most of all the mainstream press have found yet another scapegoat for the Iraq War: blame Blackwater. On the surface, the company seems perfectly suited to the role of whipping boy: a name that sounds particularly evil, responsibility for arbitrary civilian deaths, and a CEO named Erik Prince.

Bad PAUL-itics

Bad PAUL-itics
It is difficult for one to walk down the pathways of the Oval without seeing some reference to Representative Ron Paul, the maverick, libertarian, Republican candidate for the presidency in 2008. And while it is novel to see a candidate who does not kowtow to either major party line, some of Mr.

The Fifth of November Money Bomb

Columbus Ron Paul supporters help ignite record-breaking "Money Bomb"
The Fifth of November Money Bomb
Editor's Note: The article "The Fifth of November Money Bomb", which can be found on page 7 in the printed publication, was not written by publisher Rajiv Mohan, but by incoming staff writer, Jason Rink. The Sentinel would like to apologize for this error, and asks that Mr.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor
August 30, 2007 In response to years old article, "Clueless, Inside the Mind of USG President Suz Schraer" by Matt Luby Would it be possible to receive a copy of the past article that was about our former student president Suzanne Schaerer?? I think it is from 2005.

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