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The Cross Reference: voting in 2012

November 10, 2011 1 Comment

Ellis Cross

We have less than 365 days. The next presidential election has been heralded as the most important election in American history and will be the election felt around the world. Put aside all of your feelings about the way things are and how you think things aught to be for the length of this column. ...

The Cross Reference: student loan forgiveness

November 1, 2011 No Comments

Ellis Cross

Have you read “The 99 Percent Declaration” published Oct. 7 by the Occupy Wherever people? I have. If you would like to read it you can find it online. It’s about 18 pages long and covers the organization of the group, their intentions, their demands and a threat to create a new political party after ...

the Cross Reference

October 25, 2011 1 Comment

Ellis Cross

I’m getting tired of being right. Several semesters ago I saw it coming. I wrote on this opinion page “smokers need to wake up and fight for their freedoms.” I began to hear the rumors, which led to committees, and then surveys, which are just sample ballots. Then eventually students were forced to vote on ...

Tosh.0 is a podium for a bully

October 24, 2011 2 Comments

Dave Hon

Daniel Tosh is a dick. I was sitting in my room while one of my roommates was channel surfing. He happened to stumble upon “Tosh.0″ and thus changed my new perspective on America’s cyberbullying problem. You see, it didn’t actually start with Daniel Tosh. In 2002, a video was uploaded of a high school student ...

The Cross Reference: Do the work, vote responsibly

October 20, 2011 No Comments

Ellis Cross

It disturbs me when I hear that students are considering not voting in the presidential election next year. I know with the electoral vote system we have in this country it seems like voting is a waste of time. We have seen times when the candidate that received the most popular votes of the people ...

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