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Olympics safety worries locals

By Hany Abdel | January 23, 2014

With a little more than two weeks to the Sochi Winter Olympics, students and staff are apprehensive about attending.According to a Jan. 21 article by The Associated Press, there are still about 300,000 tickets left to purchase to attend the Olympics.People...

In Focus: Sept. 11 Reflections

September 11, 2011

Kiara herring Columnist On Sept. 11, 2001, I sat in my kitchen waiting for my mother to make me a bowl of cereal. I went to the TV to turn on the Power Puff Girls, but it had been left on the news station my father watched the night before. I was looking...

Body scanners threaten our freedoms as citizens

By Letter Writer | November 30, 2010

It's very simple. You can either have safety, or you can have freedom. By their very nature, these two principles stand at opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. They foil one another just like water and oil, but as it sadly turns out, freedom is...