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Don’t Be Scared…It’s Just Politics

As the Joker so famously said: “Let’s turn the clocks back a year.” Last October seems so far away.  America  had a mortgage crisis that nearly put us into a depression, we elected the first African-American president, Bernie Madoff nearly bankrupted the Mets*1, Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska,  Congressman Joe Wilson shouted “You lie!” in a joint session of congress, and just recently Glen Beck’s “Buzzword Army” marched on Washington.  I didn’t even mention soon-to-be household name Max Baucus and the ruckus he’s causing.

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Cartoon Offends Some, Not All

The New York Post recently published a cartoon on its editorial page that many found offensive. The cartoon that created this entire buzz played off an incident the day before, in which a chimpanzee being kept as a pet was shot and killed by a police officer. Said chimpanzee had brutally attacked a visitor in its owner’s home before storming out the front door and cornering a police officer in his cruiser. The officer proceeded to shoot the chimpanzee, and that is where this story begins.

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The Stimulus Plan: In the Eyes of a College Student

The biggest economic recovery package in decades was recently passed by Congress under the Obama administration. This legislation is formally known as the "Economic Stimulus Package of 2009." Many Democrats truly believe that this will help bring forth solutions to the economic crisis that the national recession has caused in many areas of the American lifestyle, such as education. Many educators have praised the stimulus legislation in light of its emphasis on improving American early childhood and secondary education fields.

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Here are the final standings

Students Lacking Pioneer Pride

Whenever I watch ESPN’s “College Gameday,” I find myself wondering what a collegiate experience like that would have been like. What would it be like to paint my face and scream my head off rooting on Michigan at the Big House in Ann Arbor, or being one of the “Cameron Crazies” during a Duke Basketball game? For a sports enthusiast like myself, it would have been awesome, but the over/ under on my semesters in school would have been 1.5. There are times when I’d watch Jeopardy: College Edition and wish I had attended an Ivy League school. Maybe I should have gone to USC, North Carolina, Harvard or Yale, but truth be told, it wasn’t in the cards for me. I never applied myself enough to get the grades to have a shot at those high profile schools. However, if you told me a decade ago that I would go to William Paterson, I would have laughed and then gotten irritated by the assumption. It was considered by some of my classmates to be on par with a community college.

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Have We Reached The Promised Land?

When the month of February comes around each year, the first thing that comes to mind is Black History Month and all of the accomplishments that African Americans have made to be where they are today.

It’s hard to fathom that 41 years ago, people were still living in segregated neighborhoods, going to segregated schools, and using separate bathrooms across America, and people lived this way for most of their lives.

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Grammys Weren't Lame

I sat in my bed on Feb. 8 in anticipation, but not about who’s going to win Album of the Year or what the top rap song of the year would be. Absolutely not. If not for my journalistic responsibilities, I probably would have been watching some special on black holes on the History Channel or a new episode of Man Vs. Wild. Really, how awesome is Bear Grylls?

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