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Editorial: The Columbine Generation

The tragedy that happened at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 changed the way we grew up. It changed our parents. It changed the way we thought about guns, about security, about our society.

By Editorial Board | April 19, 2010
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3D films have gone too far

While 3D originated in the 1950s, the success of the 2009 box office record-breaker, “Avatar,” specially designed to wow the technology world, seems to have sparked a Hollywood obsession with 3D films.

By Monique Zatcoff | April 19, 2010
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Hijacked by porn?

With at least 200 new pornographic websites opening up daily on the Internet, according to the Los Angeles Times, you are becoming more vulnerable to psychological, emotional, mental, and social harms each day.

By Catherine Smith | April 19, 2010
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It’s nothing personal, it’s just education

A professor at Louisiana State University has been dismissed from her teaching duties because the introductory biology class she was teaching was too hard. This is due not to lazy students or a crazy professor, but to assembly-line college educations.

By Cullen Wheatley | April 19, 2010
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Editorial: Playing around

The temperature is hitting upwards of 90 degrees in April, and bikinis and swim trunks are making their way out of the closets and onto the “student body.” ASU just received the “Hottest Girls” honorable mention by Playboy magazine in addition to snagging one of the Top 10 spots on Playboy’s list of party schools.

By Editorial Board | April 18, 2010
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Focus on freeways may hurt economy

The Valley continues to plan for freeway expansion. The new plans do not aid the local economy or the needs and wants of residents. Instead, it contributes to an urban sprawl that makes Phoenix more spread out and less ecologically, socially or economically conscious.

By Nicole Gilbert | April 15, 2010
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Keeping Turkey out of the EU

Two weeks ago German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Talks have produced little as both sides disagree about fundamental issues including Turkey’s future membership in the EU.

By Max Feldhake | April 15, 2010
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Editorial: Wrong turn on immigration

Arizona might not be the leader in a lot of things, but if a bill passed by the state House of Representatives Tuesday is signed by Gov. Jan Brewer, the state might just take the lead on extremely tough — not to mention extremely contentious — immigration policy.

By Editorial Board | April 14, 2010
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