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The house tradition built

Instead of looking at what other schools do to bolster and maintain school spirit, we need to be working to separate ourselves from other universities by making the experience of being a Sun Devil an entirely unique and worthwhile one for all 70,000-plus of our students.

By Dustin Volz | October 13, 2010
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Editorial: Major rescue

After spending just more than two months in a collapsed mine shaft in northern Chile, 33 miners were rescued. In 69 days the true value of life surfaced before these men ever did.

By Editorial Board | October 13, 2010
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Paying America’s dues

Last week the nation saw a preview of life in America as envisioned and legislated by ultra-right tea party types — a country where everything will be “privatized.”

By Ben Karris | October 12, 2010
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Editorial: Midterm blues

The only people at ASU who like midterms week are probably the managers of the campus Starbucks. So as an open gesture of appreciation, thank you, baristas for serving up the fall fuel, even if sleep-deprived students aren’t the best tippers.

By Editorial Board | October 12, 2010
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Editorial: All shook up

The most-populous city in the U.S. has a liter-sized problem, according to the city’s mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s ongoing campaign to fight obesity, which targets more than half of the adults in New York City, has gone from asking for salt restrictions to proposing a 2-year plan to ban using federally distributed food stamps on sugar-sweetened drinks, like soda. The federal food stamp program, which has been around since the ’60s, currently bans using food stamps for cigarettes, alcohol and prepared foods, like deli and bakery sandwiches. And while there is certainly some merit to thinking Bloomberg has no business doing your Dew or telling you where to spend your stamps, there is some merit to his effort. Over the last 30 years, the consumption of sugary drinks, like soda, have more than doubled, and Bloomberg’s proposed 2-year ban on food stamps for the popular beverages aims to attack the connection between consuming high levels of sugar and the development of type-2 diabetes. The climbing levels of obesity and the resulting health effects are certainly frightening for America’s future.

By Editorial Board | October 11, 2010
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Know your Nobelists

Last week marked the announcement of this year’s Nobel prizes in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace. Here's what you should know about this year's Nobelists.

By Dan Garry | October 11, 2010
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Crimes of the coyotes

Some illegal immigrants rely on human traffickers and drug cartels to get across the border, but a recent report found that this leads to crimes more horrific than illegal immigration.

By Emilie Eaton | October 11, 2010
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‘Eat, Pray, Love’ author writes more than ‘priv-lit’

Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestseller, “Eat, Pray, Love,” has recently come under the criticism of being “priv-lit,” or literature of the privileged. But books like Gilbert's provide an “affordable” opportunity to be transported to a different life through her writing and glean from them what we will.

By Anna Bethancourt | October 11, 2010
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Editorial: Talking point

Anyone who regularly walks past the Memorial Union is sure to have seen lively, if not uncivil, arguments over any number of issues.

By Editorial Board | October 10, 2010
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